I knew, vaguely and in the back of my mind, that Utah was a slave territory before the Civil War. It’s one of bits of trivia I trot out from time to time to serve as a reminder that I’m a history nerd. Not that anyone really cares. Not that it matters to Civil War buffs, either. Utah wasn’t part of the Confederacy. The early Mormons were realists. They cooperated with the Union...
1852 Utah Slave Code
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