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The first African Americans to arrive in Utah were fur trappers in the early 19th century. The second influx consisted of both freedmen who were converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and slaves belonging to white converts. Later, most African American immigrants to Utah would migrate out for labor-related ...
Hark Lay Wales arrived in Utah on July 22, 1847. This historic event marked them as the first African-Americans to arrive in Utah. Shortly after arriving Hark Lay Wales and others settled in a small African-American community near Salt Lake City called Cottonwood, which would later be named Holladay. [3]
The first group of pioneers brought African slaves with them, making Utah the only place in the western United States to have African slavery. [9] Three slaves, Green Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, came west with this first group in 1847. [ 10 ]
In 1847, the Mormon pioneers arrived with African slaves, which was the first time African slavery was in the area. [2] Three blacks who arrived in Utah with Brigham Young's party were slaves. [14] Mormons arrived in the middle of the Mexican–American War and ignored the Mexican ban on slavery.
Robert Archuleta: [18] First Latino American male to graduate from the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law (1974) [Salt Lake County, Utah] Keith N. Hamilton : [ 35 ] First African American male to graduate from the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University [ Utah County, Utah ]
When Garrido died in 1550, other Africans, free and enslaved, had already made their mark on this new world. In 1521, a few months after Ponce de Leon died from thigh meat poisoning, Lucas ...
First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam. First African-American senator from New Jersey: Cory Booker. 2014
African slaves were first brought into Utah in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers. At the time, slavery was illegal in Mexico, but became de facto law, based on Mormon acceptance of slavery. [ 2 ] Several prominent Mormon leaders had slaves, including Charles C. Rich , Abraham O. Smoot and William H. Hooper . [ 3 ]