This Abominable Slavery

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This Abominable Slavery is written by W. Paul Reeve and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197765041 (ISBN 10) and 9780197765043 (ISBN 13).

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.