Brigham expresses opposition to slave abuse and support for Black service.
- Type
- Speech / Court Transcript
- Hearsay
- Scribed Verbatim
- Reference
Brigham Young, Speech, January 23, 1852, Historian's Office Record of Speeches, Church History Library
- Scribe/Publisher
- George D. Watt
- Audience
- Utah Territorial Legislature
- Transcription
As for masters knocking <them> down and whiping [sic] them, and breaking the limbs of their servants I have as little opinion of that as any person can have, but good, wholesome servitude I know there is nothing better than that.
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