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Date: February 13, 2018 12:38AM
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2018/02/13/historian-to-discuss-black-mormon-pioneers-such-as-green-flake-and-utahs-relationship-with-slavery/>>Thiriot, a Brigham Young University history graduate... is working on a book for University of Utah Press tentatively titled “Slaves in Zion: African American Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862.”
I stuck my shot in early in the comments department; I'm hopeful others who are more familiar with that era of Utah history than I am will chime in as well; I'm working on some DNA stuff, and experiencing a "senior moment" about the African-American woman who was sealed to Brigham Young--as a servant--with another woman who served as her "proxy" because she wasn't permitted to enter the Temple...