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This abominable slavery : race, religion, and the battle over human bondage in Antebellum Utah / W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich Jr., and LaJean Purcell Carruth.

Van Pelt Library HT917.L3 R4 2024
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Reeve, W. Paul, author.
Rich, Christopher B., Jr., author.
Carruth, LaJean Purcell, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Slavery and the church--Latter Day Saint churches.
Slavery and the church.
Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Utah Territory.
Enslaved persons.
Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Utah Territory.
Indians of North America.
Indentured servants--Legal status, laws, etc--Utah Territory.
Indentured servants.
Slavery--Law and legislation--Utah Territory.
Slavery.
Physical Description:
ix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Summary:
"'The Abominable Slavery' places the debate over Native American indentures and African American enslavement in Utah Territory within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide that would tear the Union assunder less than a decade later. It situates the bills under debate in Utah in comparison to similar bills passed by other states and territories in the antebellum period."--Publisher.
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Electronic version: Reeve, W. Paul. This abominable slavery.
ISBN:
9780197765029
0197765025
OCLC:
1453070978

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