Additional Resources
Biographical sketches of characters in the film
Members of Brigham Young’s Vanguard Pioneer Company of 1847
documents and artifacts
More resources
Race and the Priesthood (Latter-day Saint Gospel Topics Essays)
“Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood” (Edward L. Kimball, BYU Studies, 2008)
“Slavery and Abolition” (Latter-day Saint Church History Topics)
“In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions”: Green Flake’s Legacy of Faith” (Pioneers in Every Land)
“Healing the Wounds of Racism” (Darius Gray, Ensign, 2020)
Standing on the Promises Book Series by Darius Gray and Margaret Young
Blacks in the Scriptures by Darius Gray
“Making Sense of the Church’s History on Race” (W. Paul Reeve)
For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism by Russell Stevenson
A Century of Black Mormons online database
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness by W. Paul Reeve
General Works on Slavery
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008 (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2013)
Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, 2009)
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Ira Berlin, 2000)
“Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears” (Edward Ball, Smithsonian, 2015)
Southern Slavery and the Law (Thomas D. Morris, 1996)
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Daina Ramey Berry, 2017)
African American Genealogy
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (Heather A. Smith, 2016)
Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery
Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
The Best of Reclaiming Kin: Helpful Tips on Researching Your Roots (Robyn N. Smith, 2016)