Download or read book This Abominable Slavery written by History Department and Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies W Paul Reeve and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening volume draws extensively on previously unused sources to chronicle the 1852 Utah territorial legislative 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.