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Mrs. Dred Scott (Record no. 458)

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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name VanderVelde, Lea.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Mrs. Dred Scott
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Oxford ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher Oxford University Press,
Year of publication 2009.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages viii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., map, ports.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Women slaves
Topical Term Slaves
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10288461

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