I want to share a few more passages that I marked during my recent reading of Amy Tanner Thiriot, Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022). It seems that the Saints in Utah were, by and large, unsympathetic to slavery The presence of the enslaved in the Latter-day Saint settlements had caused discussion and dissent, but only fragments of the... Read more