Utah Indians and the Indian Slave Trade: The Mormon Adoption Program and its Effect on the Indian Slaves

This thesis is a study of the Mormon adoption program developed by the Mormons in response to the Indian slave trade in Utah, 1850-1880. It focuses on the Mormon justifications, as enumerated by Brigham Young, for the adoption policy and it links those justifications to expected results. Further thi...

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Main Author: Muhlestein, Robert M.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 1991
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4968
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5967&context=etd