Was Brigham Young Racist?

Brigham Young and Orson Spencer argued that Utah should allow slavery before the Utah Territorial Legislature. During this period, the morality and legality of slavery were being debated across the nation. In 1852, Utah had been a territory of the United States for just two years. It had only been admitted as a territory because in 1849, California applied for admittance into the U.S. as a free state, or a state that didn’t allow slavery.

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