Jane Manning James

Jane Manning James appears in Kyle’s notes on Saints — No Unhallowed Hand (volume 2 of the Church history) as one of the figures representing “the human cost” of the period — paired with Lorena Larsen in that role. The volume centers on Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff and the Manifesto, and the priesthood-and-temple restrictions of the era; Jane Manning James stands in Kyle’s reading as the personal stakes underneath those institutional decisions.

Context: Jane Elizabeth Manning James (c. 1822–1908) was a free-born Black woman and early Latter-day Saint convert who joined the Church in Nauvoo, crossed the plains to Utah, and repeatedly petitioned Church leaders to receive temple ordinances she was denied under the priesthood and temple restriction then in force.

Where this appears

• Saints — No Unhallowed Hand — cited (with Lorena Larsen) as the human cost of the priesthood/temple restrictions of the period