Our Sorrows They've Seen: The Tennessee Mormon Massacre

dc.contributor.advisorRowe, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorLinam, Alisha M.en_US
dc.contributor.committeememberHolloway, Pippaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-02T18:44:40Z
dc.date.available2014-06-02T18:44:40Z
dc.date.issued2013-03-28en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Tennessee Mormon Massacre, or the Cane Creek Massacre, occurred on August 10, 1884, in Lewis County, Tennessee. A masked mob attacked the James Conder farm during a Sunday worship service and murdered four members of the Church ofen_US
dc.description.abstractJesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including two missionaries. The leader of the mob died in the violence as well. Several historians have explored the events of the massacre and have connected it to the national anti-polygamy movement of the 1880s. However, noen_US
dc.description.abstractone has approached it from the local level. This thesis introduces the Lewis County Circuit Court records to the literature and reexamines the sources that other scholars of the massacre have used. It reveals several points of local tension that were present before the Mormons arrived and demonstrates community relationships that have previously been left unexplored.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/3504
dc.publisherMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectChurch of Jesus Christ of Latteen_US
dc.subjectMassacreen_US
dc.subjectMormonen_US
dc.subjectSouthernen_US
dc.subjectTennesseeen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subject.umiAmerican historyen_US
dc.thesis.degreegrantorMiddle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.thesis.degreelevelMastersen_US
dc.titleOur Sorrows They've Seen: The Tennessee Mormon Massacreen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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