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Mrs. Dred Scott - A Life on Slavery's Frontier (Hardcover)
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Mrs. Dred Scott - A Life on Slavery's Frontier (Hardcover)
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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.
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