Product Description
Discover the hidden stories of Black lives and servitude in Utah Territory through a documentary and genealogical history that centers voices long overlooked.
- Two-part structure: an introductory history complemented by a biographical encyclopedia of names, relationships, and events.
- Documented around one hundred enslaved or indentured Black men, women, and children in Utah Territory, revealed through careful genealogical research.
- Explores how slavery, law, race, and Mormonism intersected between 1847 and 1862, including life after emancipation.
- Author: Amy Tanner Thiriot, independent historian and BYU-Idaho adjunct instructor; contributor to Deseret Book’s Women of Faith in the Latter Days and Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia.
Care/fit: Hardcover format; 384 pages; illustrated; dimensions 1.19 x 9 x 6 inches.
Shipping/returns: Ships securely; returns accepted per store policy.
