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Black Men Claim Important Place in Church of Latter-day Saints
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2:21Now PlayingHeritage Park will honor four African American stories that are intertwined with western expansion, abolition and creation of the Church of Latter-day Saints.
Three of these men were Green Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby. These enslaved Black men came to Utah with the first company of Mormons and were part of the city’s first encampment.
Mormon pioneers traveled west seeking freedom to practice their faith. Yet ironically, they traveled with men in bondage.
These men were sent ahead to help prepare terrain for Brigham Young’s wagon trail and Mormon settlers.
Some historians even believe Flake drove the first Latter-day Saint wagon into Salt Lake Valley.
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