Specially written for Pioneer Day 2012, this is the second post in an occasional series, “A Slave in Zion.” The first was about Marinda Redd Bankhead, and today’s post is about one of the pioneers in the original 1847 Brigham Young Company. When John Crosby died, four male slaves were named in the settlement of his estate, “Philliman, Osea, Hardy and Hark.” [1] One of John’s descendants wrote that before Hark was born, his mother...
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