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MRS. DRED SCOTT
A LIFE ON SLAVERY'S FRONTIER |
| By: |
Lea Vandervelde |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£35.99 |
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£31.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019975408X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199754083 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2010 |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Description: |
Mrs. Dred Scott is an ambitious account of the life of an unlettered woman-Harriet Scott, wife of Dred Scott-who left virtually no historical record of herself. It chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis and finally to the infamous Supreme Court case, recovering the life of an important player in one of the key episodes in American legal history. |
| Synopsis: |
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history.Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans. |
| Illustrations: |
53 Halftone |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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