“I Dug the Graves”: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions Available to Purchase

W. PAUL REEVE is the Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies in the history department at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the U.S. West. His book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (Oxford, 2015) received the Mormon History Association’s Best Book Award. He is project manager and general editor of a digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known black Mormons baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930. The database is now live at CenturyofBlackMormons.org. He would like to thank Quincy D. Newell, Matthew Harris, Ardis E. Parshall, Jonathan Stapley, Ryan Tobler, Kevin Lund, Margaret Blair Young, Darius Gray, and the anonymous reviewers for the Journal of Mormon History for their helpful feedback.