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English
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The Force of a Feather : The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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In 1856, Robert Mays Smith, was called into the First District Court of the State of California on a writ of habeas corpus. An excommunicated member of the Church and a slave-owner, Smith was attempting to leave California, a free state, and to travel to Texas, a slave state, with his slaves. This book details the events surrounding the trial, including the political influences on the district judge, Benjamin Ignatius Hayes. The author purports that the LDS Church was likely among those influences.