It’s the story of Jane Manning and Emma Smith’s friendship and support after the death of Joseph Smith. The story line alternates back and forth between Jane’s faith as a black women, who was baptized and promised to be sealed in the temple by Joseph Smith.
While not overtly faith promoting, it was impartial to the story line and raised the question of Janes treatment as a Black woman by other members of the church and her denial to be sealed in the temple until posthumously in 1979.
Edited to add: Apparently this came out back in 2018. LDS Living did an article to pre-empt some of the questions the show may have raised.
The first, being that Joseph Smith as the Mayor of Nauvoo had the right to destroy the printing press in order to prevent mob violence. Lol.
This is new to me. It was my understanding that black members couldn’t get baptized, hold the priesthood, or attend the temple until after the infamous 1978 revelation. So how did she do Baptisms for the dead?1. Joseph Smith was the Mayor of Nauvoo at the time of his death.
This is one of the reasons that he was able to order the destruction of the libelous Nauvoo Expositor in an attempt to squelch potential mob action that the newspaper might incite.
The partridge sisters story is mentioned in the show but the double wedding makes an appearance in the LDS Living article.8. Jane was able to do baptisms for the dead for some of her family in the temple.
Though she was denied permission to be endowed and sealed, Jane remained a faithful member of the Church in Salt Lake City for over 52 years, and according to her own history, “I have had the privilege of going into the temple and being baptized for some of my dead.”
This is one of the shelf items I had. How could God allow the prophet to sneak around hiding marriages from Emma? Is that a flaw in Gods plan or a flaw in Joseph’s character?
https://www.ldsliving.com/12-Facts-to- ... ma/s/8946510. Emily and Eliza Partridge had been hired on by Emma to help take care of her newborn son, Don Carlos.
The sisters remained in the Smith home even after the baby died, and they were privately sealed to Joseph Smith in 1842 at ages 19 and 23. Two months later, Emma approached the sisters, taught them about plural marriage, and told them that she would allow them to be sealed to Joseph. The sisters said nothing of their previous sealing and were sealed to Joseph again with Emma as a witness.
