Delegates to the 1856 Utah Constitutional Convention debate whether Utah will apply as a slave or free state. Orson Pratt delivers an anti-slavery speech, March 22, 1856

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Title Delegates to the 1856 Utah Constitutional Convention debate whether Utah will apply as a slave or free state. Orson Pratt delivers an anti-slavery speech, March 22, 1856
Creator Pratt, Orson, 1811-1881; Utah Constitutional Convention; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Smith, George A., 1817-1875
Contributor Carruth, LaJean Purcell; Rich, Christopher B., Jr.; Sylvia Ghosh
Date 1856-03-22
Subject Slavery--Utah--History--Sources; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History
Description Delegates to the 1856 Utah Constitutional Convention debate whether Utah will apply as a slave or free state
Identifier 6.2.a,b,c
Table of Contents Document: 6; Sub-documents: a,b,c; Appendix: 5
Collection Name Enslavement in Territorial Utah Documents Collection
Type Text
Genre transcripts
Format application/pdf
Extent 9 pages
Language eng
Rights Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Rights Holder Typesetting and editing work contributed by W. Paul Reeve
Source Orson Pratt, March 22, 1856, before the 1856 Utah Constitutional Convention, Transcribed from John V. Long's shorthand record by LaJean Purcell Carruth, Utah Territory Constitutional Convention Papers, 1856, MS 2988, CHL; Facsimile transcript, CR 100 912, CHL.; Minutes of Utah Constitutional Convention, Council House, March 21-27, 1856, MS 2988, CHL.; Historian's Office General Minutes, 1839-1877, March 23, 1856, CR 100 318, CHL.
Relation Pratt's Speech https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/8e918d97-09e0-4752-9374-3b1e1e2c889a/0/0?lang=eng&fp=true; Document 6b https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/c33d7b91-7caf-45a3-bbc6-83d37cc657e8/0/28?lang=eng&fp=true; Document 6c https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/af46b540-dd6b-4783-9c34-5ba32c60f814/0/44?lang=eng&fp=true
ARK ark:/87278/s6gggq6p
Setname uum_etud
ID 2221817
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gggq6p
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