By: Ardis E. Parshall - September 17, 2022
(Reupping this 2010 post — originally one of my Salt Lake Tribune history columns — in honor of today’s Sema Hadithi conference. One speaker will be addressing Allen Allensworth’s contributions in FAR greater detail later today.)
Born into slavery in Kentucky in 1842, Allen Allensworth escaped to serve as a hospital steward with a Union army unit during the Civil War. Before the war wa...
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