History vs. Apologetics: What They Don’t Tell You About Brigham Young and Slavery
I recently came across an article from The Interpreter Foundation titled “Brigham Young, Race, and Slavery: Reexamining Utah’s 1852 Service Act.” The author, Daniel C. Peterson, argues that “recent scholarship” has overturned our understanding of this period. He claims that the 1852 law, far from legalizing chattel slavery, actually established a more benign system of…