Mrs Dred Scott

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Mrs Dred Scott
Mrs Dred Scott
Author : Lea VanderVelde
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 26 April 2024
ISBN : 9780199754083
Pages : 497 pages
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Mrs Dred Scott by Lea VanderVelde Book PDF Summary

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. --from publisher description

Mrs Dred Scott

Mrs Dred Scott by Lea VanderVelde

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

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In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford raised issues that have not been fully resolved despite three amendments to

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