Ardis E. Parshall: “If it happened in the past and it contributed to making the world we know today, I want to know it and share it, the good, bad, inspiring or ugly. This fascination with the past is, I am told, an abnormal and unusual thing.”
What can we learn from a lonely Black Latter-day Saint trying to reach Zion and a church magazine photo of a bare-breasted woman?
But if we really knew history — knew the people on a personal level, knew the events as if we had been there, focused on fairness and not exaggeration to score points — social life in Utah could be far better. Honest history can be healing.. We know that racism persists in Utah, with social exclusion, bullying, use of racist slurs and costumes. Some blame that persistence on Mormon history; Latter-day Saints declare that all ended in 1978.
So Hunter was put back on the dock, to make her way alone to the New World on a ship headed to Canada — without friends or family, without the company of other Latter-day Saints or the leadership of a returning missionary who knew how ships and trains and wagon companies worked. She would have to support herself en route with no church assistance and find her own way West. So far as research has yet determined, Hunter never was able to rejoin the Saints.
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