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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier Vandervelde, Lea (, University of Iowa, College of Law)
Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Vandervelde, Lea (, University of Iowa, College of Law)
Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U. S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confrontingantebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans.
495 pages, 59 black and white halftone ilustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 30, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195366563 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 496 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 157 × 38 mm · 907 g |
| Language | English |