The ‘hidden’ wives of Joseph Smith and how they viewed polygamy | Episode 257
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The ‘hidden’ wives of Joseph Smith and how they viewed polygamy | Episode 257

2022-10-26
The polygamy of Mormonism’s second prophet-president, Brigham Young, is well known. Until the late 1990s, however, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had no idea that church founder Joseph Smith had taken dozens of women as his plural wives. Unlike with his first wife, Emma Smith, he didn’t live with the women (polygamy was hidden during the early faith’s years in Nauvoo, Ill.) and how intimate he was with them remains in dispute among historians. Scholar Todd ...
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