Review: Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862, by Amy Tanner Thiriot

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862, by Amy Tanner Thiriot Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862. By Amy Tanner Thiriot. University of Utah Press, 2023. 447 pages. $95.00 hardcover; $39.95 softcover; ebook available. Matthew Bowman Matthew Bowman Claremont Graduate University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2023) 27 (2): 127–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.127 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Matthew Bowman; Review: Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862, by Amy Tanner Thiriot. Nova Religio 1 November 2023; 27 (2): 127–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2023.27.2.127 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search What Amy Tanner Thiriot has accomplished is remarkable. This book is two things. The first hundred and fifty pages are a narrative survey of the history of Black people in Utah, and by extension, in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It begins when members of the church settled in Utah in 1847 until 1862, when in the storm of the Civil War, Congress abolished slavery in Utah and the other territories of the United States. The second part is an exhaustive and painstaking accounting of everything Thiriot, an independent historian, genealogist, and researcher, could locate about Black people in Utah in those years, organized as a genealogical encyclopedia. Each entry explains what is known about the person and offers citations to the sources wherein they are documented. There are also a few addendums about enslavers and Black residents of Utah whose stories have been consistently misrepresented. This... You do not currently have access to this content.