Sally in three worlds : an Indian captive in the house of Brigham Young
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Kerns Virginia (1948-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-64769-015-1, 1-64769-015-3
- Sujets : Indiennes d'Amérique -- États-Unis 19e siècle, Esclaves indiens d'Amérique, Utah -- Race relations -- 19th century -- History, Utah, Biographies, Young, Brigham -- Famille
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (371 pages), : Illustrations, cartes, couverture illustrée, 23 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Notes bibliographiques. Bibliographie p. [339]-357. Index
Résumé
'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'