Mrs. Dred Scott
A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2011. január 6.
- ISBN 9780199754083
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem498 oldal
- Méret 226x150x33 mm
- Súly 635 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 53 Halftone 0
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Rövid leírás:
Mrs. Dred Scott is an ambitious account of the life of an unlettered woman-Harriet Scott, wife of Dred Scott-who left virtually no historical record of herself. It chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis and finally to the infamous Supreme Court case, recovering the life of an important player in one of the key episodes in American legal history.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
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.
In a remarkable act of historical recovery, VanderVelde resurrects the life of Harriet Scott.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Wife of a Celebrity
1835: Arriving on the Frontier
Settling In
Entertaining Guests at the Indian Agency
Late Summer Harvest
Wintering Over at St. Peter's Agency
Winters Deep
The Change of the Guard
Celestial Explorers
The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to Treaty
A Treaty Made before Her Eyes
The Master Departs, Together Alone
Traveling the Length of the River
New Baby in a New Land
The Deteriorating Community
Battles and Baptisms
Taliaferro's Last Stand
Leaving Minnesota Trying Courts: The Justice of Frontier Trials
While the Doctor was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43
The House of Chouteau
Black Social Life of St. Louis
The Doctor Returns
1843 Interlude: Jeff Barracks between Wars of National Expansion
Harriet and Her Children in St. Louis
The Courthouse and the Jail
Other Matters at the Courthouse
Filing Suit Again
Trial by Pestilence, Trial by Fire
Declared Free
Missouri Changes its Course
Before the High Court
