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The most complete history to date of the one hundred enslaved Black pioneers of Utah Territory
Review Quotes: "The closer I got to finishing Slavery in Zion, I found myself becoming more emotional. . . . The thrill of at last seeing this facet of Utah history getting its long overdue attention also renews my hope that other suppressed narratives will soon see the light of day."--Dan Call, Association for Mormon Letters
"What Amy Tanner Thiriot has accomplished is remarkable. . . . [Slavery in Zion] stands as a guidepost toward what we might see as a coming transformation in scholarship on the LDS church and race."--Nova Religio "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