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Lea Vandervelde

Auteur de Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

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2015 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Nominee (1) aa-interest-to-read (1) african-diaspora-interest (1) Afro-Américains (3) Afro-Américains (2) 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 (1) an engrossing legal drama (1) and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography (1) and even frontier store ledgers (1) and native americans (1) as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet (1) Biographie (3) Biographie américaine (1) books-i-own-digital-copy (1) 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 (1) court dockets (1) Donated by R. Osborne (1) Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case (1) Droit (1) Early American Republic (2) Esclavage (8) Histoire (2) histoire américaine (2) Historical nooks and crannies (1) historical-interest-to-read (1) including the status of women (1) it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work (1) Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier (1) non-fiction (1) Oxford (1) Reconstruction (1) the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America (1) the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record (1) through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story (1) to slavery-era St. Louis (1) Triplett (1) VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life (1) Women/Gender/Sexuality (2) zz072 (1) études afro-américaines (2)
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Mrs. Dred Scott par Lea VanderVelde
Scholarly research, fascinating topic, truly awful writing. Author pieces together grocery lists and other scraps of contemporaneous writings to show st Louis in the 1850,s and the legal frontier of slaves And freemen that are the back drop of the dred Scott supreme court case.
 
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2
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50
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1
ISBN
9

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