Century of Black Mormons

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Century of Black Mormons is a digital history database designed to recover what was lost--the identities of Black Mormons from 1830 to 1930. Visit the database at www.CenturyofBlackMormons.org

A picture of the book cover for This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah, by W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich Jr., and LaJean Purcell Carruth
A picture of the Deseret News Column titled "From Washington."
A picture of the Act to secure freedom to all persons within the Territories of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
John M. Bernhisel
Brigham Young
(Left to Right) David Samuel Sampson Sr., David Sampson Jr., Abel Walter Daniels (nephew)
David Samuel Sampson Sr.