Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier /
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 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 the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 480 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map, portraits |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-466) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199710645 0199710643 0195366565 9780195366563 1281987093 9781281987099 9786611987091 6611987096 9780199754083 019975408X 0199887853 9780199887859 |