02911nam a2200385 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003100112020002800143040002100171035002100192043001200213050002500225100002200250245009500272246002400367260005800391300005600449504006600505505106500571520034101636533015201977600003402129600003702163600005402200650004402254650003802298655002902336710001702365856012602382999001702508ebr10288461CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||080624s2009    enkabcf sb    001 0beng    z  2008027920  z9780195366563 (alk. paper)  z0195366565 (alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)654778413  an-us---14aE444.S38bV36 2009eb1 aVanderVelde, Lea.10aMrs. Dred Scotth[electronic resource] :ba life on slavery's frontier /cLea VanderVelde.3 aMistress Dred Scott  aOxford ;aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2009.  aviii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :bill., map, ports.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.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.  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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.10aScott, Harriet,dd. ca. 1870.10aScott, Dred,d1809-1858xFamily.10aScott, Dred,d1809-1858vTrials, litigation, etc. 0aWomen slaveszUnited StatesvBiography. 0aSlaveszUnited StatesvBiography. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10288461zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c15456d15456