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100 1 $aVanderVelde, Lea.
245 10 $aMrs. Dred Scott :$ba life on slavery's frontier /$cLea VanderVelde.
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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 $aAt the center of the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decision, Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a family fighting to free itself from slavery. Despite the case s signal of importance as both a turning point in America s history and a precursor of the Civil War, the lives of the slave litigants are virtually unknown. In recounting the life of Harriet, Dred Scott s wife and co-litigant in the lawsuit, Mrs. Dred Scott illuminates how slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. What is more, her life, living and working at military outposts in Minnesota, provides a fascinating window onto the unique circumstances of slaves on the frontier of Indian territory.
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.
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