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Slavery in Zion : a documentary and genealogical history of black lives and black servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862
- Title
- Slavery in Zion : a documentary and genealogical history of black lives and black servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 / by Amy Tanner Thiriot.
- Author
- Thiriot, Amy Tanner
- Publication
- Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- xviii, 447 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm
- Summary
- "An African proverb says, "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This belief underlies the work of recovery of the names and experiences of the enslaved Black residents of Utah Territory in Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862. The total number of the enslaved has remained an open question for many years. Due to the nature of nineteenth-century records and particularly records about enslaved peoples, an exact number will never be known, but while writing this book, historian Amy Tanner Thiriot documented around one hundred enslaved or indentured African American men, women, and children in Utah Territory. Through a combination of genealogical and historical research, the book brings to light events and relationships misunderstood for well over a century. This work of historical biography corrects previous misrepresentations and gathers valuable source data for future interpretive analysis. The first section contains an introductory history, chapters on the Southern and Western experiences, and information on life after emancipation. The second section is a biographical encyclopedia with names, relationships, and experiences. Although this book contains material applicable to legal history and the history of race and Mormonism, its most important goal is to be a treasury of the experiences of Utah's enslaved Black residents. It includes better-known people like Biddy Mason and the enslaved members of the first Latter-day Saint wagon company to reach the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, Green Flake, Hark Wales, and Oscar Smith, and others who are long forgotten, including Phoebe Murphy and sisters Caroline and Tampian Hoye. This book provides the stories of the enslaved so they can become an integral part of the history of Utah and the American West, no longer forgotten or written out of history"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Enslaved persons > Utah Territory > Genealogy
- Indentured servants > Utah Territory > Genealogy
- African Americans > Utah Territory > Genealogy
- Enslavers > Utah Territory > Genealogy
- Slaveholders > Utah Territory > Genealogy
- Slavery > Utah Territory > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Genealogy
- Genealogy
- Slavery
- Slaves > Genealogy
- Indentured servants
- African Americans
- Slaveholders
- Utah Territory > History > 19th century > Genealogy
- United States > Utah Territory
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Family histories.
- Biographies.
- Genealogy.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-438) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Bound for the Promised Land -- Southern origins : Mississippi and Alabama -- Southern origins : Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky -- Exodus and escape -- The settlement of Utah -- Going to California -- Green Flake and the tithing myth -- The Texans -- Merchants, army officers, and government appointees -- Free at last -- The enslaved -- Associated enslaved individuals -- Black residents of Utah Territory -- Former or unproven enslavers -- Related topics -- Appendix 1 : An Act in Relation to Service, Utah Territorial Legislature (1852) -- Appendix 2 : Slave registrations and bill of sale -- Appendix 3 : Deeds of consecration -- Appendix 4 : Brigham Young correspondence -- Appendix 5 : Miscellaneous documents -- Appendix 6 : Selected newspaper articles.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-603
- ISBN
- 9781647690847
- 1647690846
- 9781647690854
- 1647690854
- 9781647690861 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022012712
- OCLC
- 1286366329
- Author
- Thiriot, Amy Tanner, author.
- Title
- Slavery in Zion : a documentary and genealogical history of black lives and black servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 / by Amy Tanner Thiriot.
- Publisher
- Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-438) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-603