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Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde



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Autore: VanderVelde Lea Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
Disciplina: 973.7115092
Soggetto topico: Enslaved women - United States
Enslaved persons - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Mrs. Dred Scott  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771476-5
0-19-988785-3
1-281-98709-3
9786611987091
0-19-971064-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782898403321
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