Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 Thiriot Amy Tanner
Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 Thiriot Amy Tanner According to an Akan proverb, "It is not wrong to go back…
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Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 Thiriot Amy Tanner
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. 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 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.
The second section is a biographical The first section provides an introductory history, chapters on southern and western experiences, and information on life after emancipation.