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This Abominable Slavery : Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah / W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, and LaJean Purcell Carruth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reeve, W. Paul, author.
- Rich, Christopher B., author.
- Purcell Carruth, LaJean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This eye-opening volume draws extensively on previously unused sources to chronicle the 1852 Utah territorial legislative session, during which the legislature passed two important statutes: one that legally transformed African American slaves into "servants" but did not pass the condition of servitude on to their children and another that authorized twenty-year indentures for enslaved Native Americans. This Abominable Slavery places these debates within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide and contextualizes the meaning of these laws in the lives of Black enslaved people and Native American indentured servants.
- Contents:
- Cover
- This Abominable Slavery
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The 1852 Utah Territorial Legislative Session
- 1. Servitude and Slavery in Antebellum America
- 2. Slavery among the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1847
- 3. Slavery among the Latter-day Saints, 1847-1852
- 4. The Trial of Don Pedro León Luján
- 5. An Act for the Relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
- 6. An Act in Relation to Service
- 7. Race and Election Law
- 8. Implications
- 9. Slavery, Priesthood Denial, and Brigham Young versus Orson Pratt
- 10. Utah's Juneteenth
- Appendices
- 1. Legislative Chronology, 1852
- 2. Preamble and An Act for the Further Relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
- 3. An Act in Relation to Service
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-776505-X
- 0-19-776503-3
- 0-19-776504-1
- OCLC:
- 1451534256
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