An extract from a manuscript entitled the peace maker, or, the doctrines of the millennium : being a treatise on religion and jurisprudence, or a new system of religion and politicks, for God, my country, and my rights, 1842.

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Jacob, Udney Hay, 1781-. An extract from a manuscript entitled the peace maker, or, the doctrines of the millennium : being a treatise on religion and jurisprudence, or a new system of religion and politicks, for God, my country, and my rights, 1842.

An extract from a manuscript entitled the peace maker, or, the doctrines of the millennium : being a treatise on religion and jurisprudence, or a new system of religion and politicks, for God, my country, and my rights, 1842.

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Typewritten copy of excerpts of a book published in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1842. Jacob writes about the nature of marriage, fornication, and divorce. He states that that women are the property of men and condones polygamy. The book was denounced by the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, as "trash." The historian Faun Brodie suggests that Joseph Smith used the work to see the possible reaction to an announcement on polygamy. The item also includes an intruduction by an unknown author at an unknown date.

1 vol. (51 pages).

Harold B. Lee Library