Just finished Patrick Mason's The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (OUP, 2011). It's an informative book but a bit of a chore wading through 200 pages of 19th-century white southern Protestants assaulting and sometimes killing members of every racial, ethnic, and religious group that wasn't ... white, southern, and Protestant. The short version is that Mormons had it worse than Catholics and Jews but much better than African Americans. But there is more to the story, of course.
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