Author: UtahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the ... Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahActs, Resolutions, and Memorials Passed at the ... Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahActs, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the ... Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahActs, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: Utah (Ter.)Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed by the Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahActs, Resolutions and Memorials, Passed at the Several Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Author: Richard E. TurleyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806158964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims. The editors of this two-volume collection of documents have combed public and private manuscript collections from across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre to the dismissal of the last indictment in 1896. Of special importance in Volume 2 are the transcripts of legal proceedings against John D. Lee—many of which the editors have transcribed anew from the shorthand. The two trials against Lee led to his confession, conviction, and ultimately his execution on the massacre site in 1877, all documented in this volume. Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western U.S. history.
Acts, and Resolutions and Memorials
Author: UtahActs, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah
Author: UtahPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377674018
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
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This Abominable Slavery
Author: W. Paul ReevePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197765041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would sometimes barter captive women and children to Spanish colonizers. Thus, the question of whether the Latter-day Saints would accept or reject slavery in their new Zion confronted them on the day they first arrived. Five years later, after Utah had become an American territory, its legislature was prodded to take up the question then roiling the nation: would they be slave or free? George D. Watt, the official reporter for the 1852 legislative session, reported debates and speeches in Pitman shorthand. They remained in their original format, virtually untouched, for more than one hundred and fifty years, until LaJean Purcell Carruth transcribed them. In this eye-opening volume, Carruth, Christopher Rich, and W. Paul Reeve draw extensively on these new sources to chronicle the session, during which the legislature passed two important statutes: one that legally transformed African American slaves into "servants" but did not pass the condition of servitude on to their children and another that authorized twenty-year indentures for enslaved Native Americans. This Abominable Slavery places these debates within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide and contextualizes the meaning of these laws in the lives of Black enslaved people and Native American indentured servants. In doing so, it sheds new light on race, religion, slavery, and unfree labor in the antebellum period.