{"product_id":"slavery-in-zion-a-documentary-and-genealogical-history-of-black-lives-and-black-servitude-in-utah-territory-1847-1862-9781647690854","title":"Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862","description":"According to an Akan proverb, \"It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten.\" This belief underlies historian Amy Tanner Thiriot's work in \u003ci\u003eSlavery in Zion\u003c\/i\u003e, which combines genealogical and historical research to bring to light events and relationships unknown or misunderstood for well over a century. The total number of enslaved people in Utah's early history has remained an open question for many years, due in part to the nature of nineteenth-century records, and an exact number is undetermined. But while writing this book Thiriot documented around one hundred enslaved or indentured Black men, women, and children in Utah Territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavery in Zion\u003c\/i\u003e has two major parts. The first section provides an introductory history, chapters on southern and western experiences, and information on life after emancipation. The second section is a biographical encyclopedia of names, relationships, and events. Although \u003ci\u003eSlavery in Zion\u003c\/i\u003e contains material applicable to legal history and the history of race and Mormonism, its most important contribution is as an archive of the experiences of Utah's enslaved Black people, at last making their stories an integral part of the record of Utah and the American West--no longer forgotten or written out of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy 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 \u003ci\u003eWomen of Faith in the Latter Days\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003eMormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e. She blogs at \u003ci\u003eTheAncestorFiles\u003c\/i\u003e and has written several series for \u003ci\u003eKeepapitchinin: The Mormon History Blog\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646145630482,"sku":"9781647690854","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14d68ead-52a7-4dc8-b049-29ce25747286.jpg?v=1733170837","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slavery-in-zion-a-documentary-and-genealogical-history-of-black-lives-and-black-servitude-in-utah-territory-1847-1862-9781647690854","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}