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When
the Mormon Battalion ran into the Maricopa and Pima Natives of southern
Arizona, what was it that impressed the men of the Battalion about the natives?
a.
How industrious they were
b.
Their honesty
c.
How they could live in such desolation
d.
How similar their religious beliefs
were with the Saints
Yesterday’s answer:
(A)
Denmark
(B)
The release of Mormonens Offer (A Victim of
the Mormons-A Danish anti-Mormon film)
came during a time when considerable attention was focused internationally
on the problem of what was then called the white-slave trade, human trafficking
for sexual exploitation. Inspired by the work of English feminist Josephine
Butler and others, an international movement emerged in the early twentieth
century that included the Danish Committee for the Prevention of the White
Slave Trade, founded in 1902. The chairman of the committee, Col. Axel
Liljefalk, claimed that the Mormons were transporting hundreds of young Danish
women to America as white slaves and implied that the nefarious plot (never
proved) was connected with the disappearance of many young women in Chicago
(December 2, 1913).
Similar
claims—but about the recruitment of young women as polygamous wives—were made
by a professional anti-Mormon lecturer, a former Latter-day Saint named Hans
Peter Freece from Salina, Utah, in Denmark and in England, in the English
language in both countries. In a series of letters that he signed as a member
of the Rigsdag, [Member of the LDS and elected Danish official Frederik
Ferdinand] Samuelsen challenged Col. Liljefalk to produce any evidence for his
claims about the Mormons but did not receive a straightforward response.
Richard
L. Jensen, “Mr. Samuelsen Goes to Copenhagen: The First Mormon Member Of A
National Parliament,” Journal of Mormon
History, Spring 2013, 2-5.
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