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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862

Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Amy Tanner ThiriotPublish date:2023-01-13Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Utah PressISBN-13:9781647690854ISBN-10:1647690854UPC:9781647690854Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, ChristianityBook Topic:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC8PW4R3W2
According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's work in Slavery in Zion, which combines genealogical and historical research to bring to light events and relationships unknown or misunderstood for well over a century. The total number of enslaved people in Utah's early history has remained an open question for many years, due in part to the nature of nineteenth-century records, and an exact number is undetermined. But while writing this book Thiriot documented around one hundred enslaved or indentured Black men, women, and children in Utah Territory.

Slavery in Zion has two major parts. The first section provides an introductory history, chapters on southern and western experiences, and information on life after emancipation. The second section is a biographical encyclopedia of names, relationships, and events. Although Slavery in Zion contains material applicable to legal history and the history of race and Mormonism, its most important contribution is as an archive of the experiences of Utah's enslaved Black people, at last making their stories an integral part of the record of Utah and the American West--no longer forgotten or written out of history.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Utah PressISBN-13:9781647690854ISBN-10:1647690854UPC:9781647690854Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:African American & Black, ChristianityBook Topic:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC8PW4R3W2
Amy Tanner Thiriot is an independent historian and adjunct university instructor in the BYU-Idaho Family History Research program. Her work has been published in the Deseret Book series Women of Faith in the Latter Days and in Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia. She blogs at TheAncestorFiles and has written several series for Keepapitchinin: The Mormon History Blog.

Publisher: University of Utah Press

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