Hardly anyone in America knows this today, but Joseph Smith and his Mormons not only owned slaves in states of New York, Ohio and Illinois, which were all "northern states" that didn't allow slavery, the Utah was the only slave territory in the western territories and Brigham Young and his Mormons actually enslaved the Indians in the Utah Territory. Consequently, Joseh Smith's real "First Vision", which occurred in 1820, was the coming end of slavery in states north of the Mason-Dixon LIne.

The Mormon Wars and Joseph Smith's 1831 "9/11" Prophecy

One particularly embarrassing fact about the Mormon religion that arose from the Reed Smoot hearings, which were held between 1904 and 1907, was that the Mormon religion didn’t really give up polygamy with the “1890 Manifesto”. The “1890 Manifesto” was a formal decree by the Mormon religion to finally end polygamy in the United States.

Today, the mendacious Mormons lie and say they were terribly persecuted by the "gentiles" (non-Mormons), in every land they ever settled, because of their "religious beliefs". For the record the Mormons settled in New York, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Utah, and the Mormons actually fought wars with the United States Governent in every one of these locations except for New York and Ohio.