5A: Slavery, Race, and Priesthood in 1850s Utah Territory
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Jordan Watkins Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
LeJean Purcell Carruth
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
“We have no proof that the Africans are the descendants of old Cain:” Orson Pratt’s Anti-Slavery Speech before the 1856 Utah Constitutional Convention
W. Paul Reeve
University of Utah
Orson Pratt vs Brigham Young: Justifying a Racial Priesthood Restriction in the 1850s
Christopher Bowman Rich
University of Utah
“It is contrary to the views of our constituents”: Slavery in Deseret’s Constitutional Convention of 1856
