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050	1	4	_aE444.S38 _bV36 2009eb
100	1		_aVanderVelde, Lea.
245	1	0	_aMrs. Dred Scott _h[electronic resource] : _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.
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.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. _bPalo Alto, Calif. : _cebrary, _d2013. _nAvailable via World Wide Web. _nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600	1	0	_aScott, Harriet, _dd. ca. 1870.
600	1	0	_aScott, Dred, _d1809-1858 _xFamily.
600	1	0	_aScott, Dred, _d1809-1858 _vTrials, litigation, etc.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aSlaves _zUnited States _vBiography.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aebrary, Inc.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10288461 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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