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Sally in Three Worlds : An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young /

"This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house. Sally served as the longt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kerns, Virginia, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house. Sally served as the longtime servant and cook in Brigham Young's household, living and working in the Lion House and Beehive House for over twenty years. Kerns has drawn on a broad range of ethnographic, linguistic, archival, and other documentary evidence from primary sources to present the life of this Native woman"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations, maps, portraits, plan ;
ISBN:9781647690168