One of the first African-Americans to settle in the Salt Lake Valley, Green Flake was the slave of James Madison Flake, a Southern convert to the LDS Church.
His master was later killed and, by 1854, Brigham Young had given Green Flake his freedom.
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Photo credit: Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved. The Utah's African-American Voices archival photo gallery is an online adaption of the Utah Humanities Council's "Blacks in Utah History" project, created by Gary B. Peterson.