Slavery in Zion

Amy Tanner Thiriot is an independent historian and adjunct university instructor in the BYU-Idaho Family History Research program. Her work has been published in the Deseret Book series Women of Faith in the Latter Days and in Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia. She blogs at TheAncestorFiles and has written several series for Keepapitchinin: The Mormon History Blog.

Sankofa: Remembrance Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Bound for the Promised Land Part I: The Story of African American Slavery in Utah Territory 1. Southern Origins: Mississippi and Alabama 2. Southern Origins: Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky 3. Exodus and Escape 4. The Settlement of Utah 5. Going to California 6. Green Flake and the Tithing Myth 7. The Texans 8. Merchants, Army Officers, and Government Appointees 9. Free at Last Part II: Biographical Encyclopedia of the Enslaved 10. The Enslaved 11. Associated Enslaved Individuals 12. Black Residents of Utah Territory 13. Former or Unproven Enslavers 14. Related Topics Afterword Appendix 1: An Act in Relation to Service, Utah Territorial Legislature (1852) Appendix 2: Slave Registrations and Bill of Sale Appendix 3: Deeds of Consecration Appendix 4: Brigham Young Correspondence Appendix 5: Miscellaneous Documents Appendix 6: Selected Newspaper Articles Notes Bibliography Index

"Slavery in Zion is the most thorough and exhaustive treatment to date of the lives of Black Utahns in the nineteenth century. It should serve as an indispensable starting point for other researchers to explore all sorts of potentially fascinating and important topics."-Christopher C. Jones, assistant professor of history, Brigham Young University "An important addition to the study of slavery and (most importantly) enslaved peoples in early Mormon Utah. The author should be commended for her painstaking archival work to bring together well known documents as well as lesser-known documents related to this history."-Max Perry Mueller, author of Race and the Making of the Mormon People