The prophet Joseph Smith and the early elders of the Church believed that the seed of Cain continued through the flood by the wife of Ham, a son of Noah4. ... Young believed that any white man guilty of mingling "his seed with the seed of Cane . could redeem himself" or "have salvation" only by having "his head cut off" and "his Blood [spilt] on the ground"7 According to the Compromise of 1850 the territory of Utah was left open to slavery. ... As the Civil war began, the Mormon-dominated territory of Utah decided not to participate in either seceding from the Union or joining the Union a...

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