What Would We Lose if We Didn't Know About Samuel?

In inheliman, chapter 13, verse two, there was one samuel, a lamanite, who came into the land. And this is what scholars call a parallel narrative. Whole history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes yon of idea. Samuel and alma and a abinadi all teach some of the most profound things about the nature of christ that we find anywhere in the book of mormon. But there's also this kind of racial component. Yeexactly. This isn't a nephite teaching other nephites. This is a foreigner, a maybe from kind of a marginalized population,. absolutely from a marginal anda, total outsider