W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, Lajean Purcell Carruth

This Abominable Slavery (eBook, ePUB)

Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197765043
• Artikelnr.: 72302301

Autorenporträt

W. Paul Reeve is the chair of the History Department and Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah. He is author of Let's Talk About Race and Priesthood (Deseret Book, 2023) and Project Manager and General Editor of an award-winning digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to name and identify all known Black Latter-day Saints baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930. The database is live at www.CenturyofBlackMormons.org Christopher B. Rich, Jr. is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and an LL.M. from the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. He served for 11 years in the U.S. Army JAG Corps before transitioning to the Reserves. He has published award-winning articles in the fields of National Security Law and 19th century Latter-day Saint history. LaJean Purcell Carruth is a senior historian at the Church History Department in Salt Lake City. She is a professional transcriber of 19th and early 20th century documents written in Pitman shorthand, Taylor shorthand, and in the Deseret Alphabet. Through her work, hundreds of previously illegible shorthand documents are now available for research. Her research specialties include Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, 19th century Mormon history, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and race and priesthood in 19th century Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The 1852 Utah Territorial Legislative Session
Chapter 1: Servitude and Slavery in Antebellum America
Chapter 2: Slavery among the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1847
Chapter 3: Slavery among the Latter-day Saints, 1847-1852
Chapter 4: The Trial of Don Pedro León Luján
Chapter 5: An Act for the Relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
Chapter 6: An Act in Relation to Service
Chapter 7: Race and Election Law
Chapter 8: Implications
Chapter 9: Slavery, Priesthood Denial, and Brigham Young versus Orson Pratt
Chapter 10: Utah's Juneteenth
Appendix
1. Legislative Chronology, 1852
2. An Act for the Relief of Indian Slaves and Prisoners
3. An Act in Relation to Service