They Would Be Like Them 

Joseph Smith

In The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 2: December 1841-April1843, ed. Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, and Richard Lloyd Anderson, (Salt Lake City, UT: Church Historian's Press, 2011), 212.

“They come into the world slaves mentally and physically. Change their situation with the white & they would be like them. They have souls and are subjects of salvation.”