Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom Before Dred Scott - Hardcover

Vandervelde, Lea

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9780199927296: Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom Before Dred Scott

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[VanderVelde's] impressive collection paints a broad, incisive, and intriguing portrait of the condition of African Americans in the years preceding the Supreme Court's infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision. ... These cases...provide curious historians vivid insights into the values and customs of an era quite at odds with our own. (Gateway Magazine)

VanderVelde makes palpable the bravery and fortitude of the men and women who sought freedom for themselves and their families. (Kirkus)

A landmark volume in our understanding of the law of slavery. VanderVelde's Redemption Songs is the indispensable capstone to almost two decades of pathbreaking research. (John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln's Code)

Carefully examining recently unearthed court documents, census records, and much more, Lea VanderVelde constructs a nuanced portrait of slavery and freedom in the antebellum West. This is an important contribution to our understanding of slavery and its legal history. (Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School)

Lea VanderVelde's Redemption Songs is a stunning account of the efforts of ordinary African Americans to secure freedom through the courts. In graceful prose, VanderVelde highlights the surprising promise of freedom suits but also the staggering toll the effort took on those who turned to them. Recovering the voices of those long thought voiceless, VanderVelde tells even experts things we did not know. Equally important, she brings to life things we know in theory. (Michael Les Benedict, Ohio State University)

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Lea VanderVelde is the Josephine Witt Professor of Law at the University of Iowa.

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom. Most examinations of the case focus on its infamous verdict, and how it worsened the sectional crisis that eventually led to the Civil War. In conventional understanding, a slave losing a lawsuit against his master seems unremarkable. But in fact, that case was just one of many freedom suits brought by slaves in the antebellum period, just one example of slaves working within the confines of the U.S. legal system (and defying their masters in the process) in an attempt to win the ultimate prize: their freedom. And until Dred Scott, the St. Louis courts recognized the legal rights of the most oppressed members of society and declared many slaves free. For over a decade, legal historian Lea VanderVelde has been building and analyzing a collection of more than 300 newly discovered freedom suits in St. Louis. In Redemption Songs, she describes twelve of these never-before examined cases in close detail. Through these remarkable accounts, she takes readers beyond the conventional to weave a diverse tapestry of freedom suits and slave families' lives on the American frontier. From these court proceedings in St. Louis, a city defined by the antebellum frontier, VanderVelde reveals the unique circumstances surrounding the institution of slavery in westward expansion. Her investigation shows the wide variation of circumstances that led African-Americans held in bondage to file suit for freedom. Dred Scott's catastrophic loss at the United States Supreme Court actually ended a succession of slave lawsuits recognizing the plaintiff's right to freedom. Beyond the successful outcomes, the very existence of these freedom suits helped to reshape the parameters of American slavery in the nation's expansion. Thanks to VanderVelde's thorough and original research, we can hear for the first time the vivid stories of a seemingly powerless group who used a legal system that was so often arrayed against them in their fight for freedom from slavery. Oxford University Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 2014 This is a BRAND NEW book. Seller Inventory # 000026

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