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Author VanderVelde, Lea.

Title Mrs. Dred Scott [electronic resource] : a life on slavery's frontier / Lea VanderVelde.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description viii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.
Contents Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue.
Summary 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Scott, Harriet, -approximately 1870.
Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Family.
Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Women slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title Mistress Dred Scott
ISBN 9780195366563 (alk. paper)
0195366565 (alk. paper)

 
    
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