Alma 23

The King of the Lamanites makes it possible for the sons of Mosiah to go throughout all of the land and protected them by law from any persecution. It appears that all but the Amalekites and the Amulonites were converted. The curse is removed from those who are converted meaning to me that they are no longer separated from God. You wonder if their skin color was affected also. The missionaries obviously taught in a manner that was not superficial, but substantial and powerful, "according to the spirit of revelation and of prophecy, and [with] the power of God working miracles in them. The conversions of the people were deep and lasting because Mormon tells us that they did never fall away. You have to wonder why they chose to all themselves Anti-Nephi-Lehies. Anti means against, but the definition of anti in dictionaries in the 1820's is like or similar to. It would make sense, if that were the definition of Joseph Smith's time, for him to choose that word when translating.