Mrs. Dred Scott

by Lea Vandervelde

Book Overview

Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges
and lawyers. In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195366565
• ISBN13: 9780195366563
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"