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Before Dred Scott - Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 (Paperback)
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Before Dred Scott - Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis
Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and
legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where
the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers converge. Formally
divided between slave and free territories and states, the American
Confluence was nevertheless a site where the borders between
slavery and freedom, like the borders within the region itself,
were fluid. Such ambiguity produced a radical indeterminacy of
status, which, in turn, gave rise to a distinctive legal culture
made manifest by the prosecution of hundreds of freedom suits,
including the case that ultimately culminated in the landmark
United States Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott vs Sandford.
Challenging dominant trends in legal history, Before Dred Scott
argues that this distinctive legal culture, above all, was defined
by ordinary people's remarkable understanding of and appreciation
for formal law.
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