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001 2008027920
003 DLC
005 20090417135626.0
008 080624s2009 enkabcf b 001 0beng
010 $a 2008027920
020 $a9780195366563 (alk. paper)
020 $a0195366565 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)221155247
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dC#P$dBWX$dCDX$dSGB$dIAY$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE444.S38$bV36 2009
100 1 $aVanderVelde, Lea.
245 10 $aMrs. Dred Scott :$ba life on slavery's frontier /$cLea VanderVelde.
246 3 $aMistress Dred Scott
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :$bill., map, ports. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.
505 0 $aWife 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.
520 $aIn 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
600 10 $aScott, Harriet,$dd. ca. 1870.
600 10 $aScott, Dred,$d1809-1858$xFamily.
650 0 $aWomen slaves$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$vBiography.
600 10 $aScott, Dred,$d1809-1858$xTrials, litigation, etc.