In this series, Firm Foundations, we examine history and doctrine pertaining to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We examine the LDS (Mormon) faith and culture in order to separate the facts from the fiction in LDS history and doctrine.

While the creators of the show are members of the LDS church, this show is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. We strive to be independent critics, learning about and explaining Mormon culture and history, and sometimes calling for changes to ideas and assumptions we hold as members when the evidence doesn’t back up our longheld myths or ideas about the church, it’s policies, or it’s leaders.

LDS Polygamy is such a misunderstood and complicated topic. In this episode, we talk about the women involved. How did they feel? What could they do? What power did they have in such a skewed system? Watch this episode to discover the answers to many of your questions about early LDS polygamy and the women involved. There is lots more to cover on polygamy, so don’t worry, we’ll have additional episodes with additional coverage in the future.

In every video we carefully craft the scripts and factcheck our stories. We examine facts, scriptures, doctrinal sources, historical documents, modern surveys, psychology, and scientific data. Hannah, as the writer and researcher, interprets this information and crafts it into a factually accurate, but interesting and dynamic episode. It is important to our mission that we not sugar coat or ignore facts, and that we include all pertinent information and use empathy when examining individuals’ choices. We want to empower you to do the same. We always include links to our sources below each video, so that viewers can dig deeper into the source material, ask questions, and find the truth. Check out our sources for this video below.

Sources

https://www.churchhistorianspress.org...

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/vi...

https://catalog.lds.org/record?id=eb1...

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/per...

https://catalog.lds.org/record?id=eb1...)


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