Maxwell Institute Podcast #131: An Elect Lady, with Jennifer Reeder
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Emma's Commitment to Her Family and to Her Children
She's perpetually caught in the middle between church members and this memory of joseph smith. She didn't know how to tell her sons that they may have half brothers and sisters, although we know to day, through d and a evidence, that there were no other children from other wives with joseph. And i think for emma, she was respecting her husband, but also it was sort of a mark of embarrassment or shame. I'm also really struck by the way joseph's practice of polygamy is so different than brigham's practice ofpolygamy.
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