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In the Shadow of Dred Scott - St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
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In the Shadow of Dred Scott - St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Places Series
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The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was
merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more
widespread in antebellum American jurisprudence than is generally
recognized. The author draws on the case files of more than three
hundred enslaved individuals who, like Dred Scott and his family,
sued for freedom in the local legal arena of St. Louis. Her
findings open new perspectives on the legal culture of slavery and
the negotiated processes involved in freedom suits. As a gateway to
the American West, a major port on both the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers, and a focal point in the rancorous national debate
over slavery's expansion, St. Louis was an ideal place for enslaved
individuals to challenge the legal systems and, by extension, the
social systems that held them in forced servitude. Kennington
offers an in-depth look at how daily interactions, webs of
relationships, and arguments presented in court shaped and reshaped
legal debates and public at titudes over slavery and freedom in St.
Louis. Kennington also surveys more than eight hundred state
supreme court freedom suits from around the United States to
situate the St. Louis example in a broader context. Although white
enslavers dominated the antebellum legal system in St. Louis and
throughout the slaveholding states, that fact did not mean that the
system ignored the concerns of the subordinated groups who made up
the bulk of the American population. By looking at a particular
example of one group's encounters with the law and placing these
suits into conversation with similar en counters that arose in
appellate cases nationwide Kennington sheds light on the ways in
which the law responded to the demands of a variety of actors.
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