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The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law (Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest) - Hardcover

 
9780821419113: The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law (Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0821419110 ISBN 13: 9780821419113
Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S.

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About the Authors

David Thomas Konig is a professor of history and a professor of law at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author or editor of articles, books, and documentary collections on American legal history from the first colonial settlements to the Civil War, including Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629–1692 and Devising Liberty: Creating and Preserving Freedom in the New American Republic.

Paul Finkelman is an expert on constitutional history, the law of slavery, and the American Civil War. He coedits the Ohio University Press series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies and is the president of Gratz College.

Christopher Alan Bracey is a professor of law at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, From Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice.

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Publisher
Ohio University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0821419110
ISBN 13 
9780821419113
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
292
Editor
Konig David Thomas, Finkelman Paul, Bracey Christopher Alan