Lea S. Vandervelde

Mrs. Dred Scott

A Life on Slavery's Frontier

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780199754083
• ISBN-10: 019975408X
• Artikelnr.: 32085471

Autorenporträt

Lea VanderVelde is Josephine Witte Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Wife of a Celebrity
2: 1835: Arriving on the Frontier
3: Settling In
4: Entertaining Guests at the Indian Agency
5: Late Summer Harvest
6: Wintering Over at St. Peter's Agency
7: Winters Deep
8: The Change of the Guard
9: Celestial Explorers
10: The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to Treaty
11: A Treaty Made before Her Eyes
12: The Master Departs, Together Alone
13: Traveling the Length of the River
14: New Baby in a New Land
15: The Deteriorating Community
16: Battles and Baptisms
17: Taliaferro's Last Stand
18: Leaving Minnesota Trying Courts: The Justice of Frontier Trials
19: While the Doctor was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43
20: The House of Chouteau
21: Black Social Life of St. Louis
22: The Doctor Returns
23: 1843 Interlude: Jeff Barracks between Wars of National Expansion
24: Harriet and Her Children in St. Louis
25: The Courthouse and the Jail
26: Other Matters at the Courthouse
27: Filing Suit Again
28: Trial by Pestilence, Trial by Fire
29: Declared Free
30: Missouri Changes its Course
31: Before the High Court