Name: Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier (en Inglés)
SKU: 3897913
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Author: Lea S. Vandervelde
ISBN: 9780199754083

portada Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier (en Inglés)

Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Lea S. Vandervelde

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

496

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

019975408X

ISBN13

9780199754083

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix, c. 1800-c. 1899
Historia de américa

Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier (en Inglés)

Lea S. Vandervelde (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.