In December 1898, Julius Taylor, publisher of a newspaper, The Broad Ax, a weekly whose audience was Utah’s black population, traveled from Salt Lake City to Spanish Fork to interview Alex and Marinda Redd Bankhead about their experiences as slaves in Utah Territory. The aging couple told Taylor that Alex had belonged to the Bankhead family of Alabama, and Marinda had belonged to the Redd family of North Carolina. As was the custom, they ea...
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