Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Joseph Smith had close family members in interracial marriages in the 1790s.

Not distant acquaintances. Not abstract issues.

His own relatives.

So when considering the phrase “cursed as pertaining to the priesthood,” in the book of Abraham, what did that mean to the prophet Joseph? In Joseph’s time, many understood that “curse” as justification for slavery.

But what if that wasn’t how he saw it at all?

This whole episode reshapes the conversation around race, history, and how we read scripture.