The Book of Mormon Deception - Part 1

Joseph Smith was a fraud, the story of the golden plates was a hoax, and The Book of Mormon is a grand forgery. That is what critics of the Church believe. Is everything we believe about the Book of Mormon a lie and a deception?

Lets begin with the man Joseph Smith. He describes his upbringing and background in his own words as follows:

I was born in the town of Charon [Sharon] in the of Vermont  North America on the twenty third day of December  AD 1805 of goodly Parents who spared no pains  to instruct me in christian religion[.] at the age of  about ten years my Father Joseph Smith Seignior  moved to Palmyra Ontario County in the State of  New York and being in indigent circumstances were  obliged to labour hard for the support of a large  Family having nine chilldren and as it required their exertions of all that were able to render  any assistance for the support of the Family  therefore we were deprived of the bennifit of an  education suffice it to say I was mearly instruct tid in reading and writing and the ground of  Arithmatic which const[it]uted my whole lite rary acquirements.
http://josephsmithpapers.org/paperSummary/history-circa-summer-1832?p=1

Here is an image of the manuscript for that same paragraph written in his own hand:

Joseph's family were primarily farmers working and living off of the land. At age 21, he claimed to have recovered a set of golden plates under the direction of an angel named Moroni. In early 1829, a school teacher named Oliver Cowdery who was boarding with Joseph's parents learned of the plates and sought out Joseph who at that time was living in Pennsylvania with his wife Emma. Oliver offered to serve as scribe while Joseph dictated the translation of the golden plates. The process began in earnest on April 7, 1829 and was completed roughly three months later. It's estimated that Oliver wrote down the text at the rate of some 3,500–4,000 words per day. There were also a few other people who filled in as scribe from time to time including Emma Smith.

Several persons were eyewitnesses to the method by which Smith dictated over six hundred manuscript pages to his scribes. And in less than a year after the completion of the translation, the work was published and accepted by believers as authoritative scripture.
(The Book of Mormon : the earliest text / edited by Royal Skousen, Introduction, viii)

If the Book of Mormon is a forgery produced through fakery and deception, then I challenge anyone to explain how it was accomplished, with or without accomplices, by a poorly educated farmboy from rural New York state.