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1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations. |
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Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest |
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Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig -- Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber -- The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis -- An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen -- Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Dred Scott, human dignity, and the quest for a culture of equality / Christopher Alan Bracey -- Dred Scott, racial stereotypes, and the "enduring marks of inferiority" / Leland Ware -- Unmasking the lie : Dred Scott and the antebellum Southern honor culture / Cecil J. Hunt -- Whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves? / John Baugh -- Considering reparations for Dred Scott / Alfred L. Brophy -- Lessons for judges from Scott v. Emerson / Duane Benton -- Missouri law, politics, and the Dred Scott case / Michael A. Wolff -- The strange career of Dred Scott : from Fort Armstrong to Guantanamo Bay / Paul Finkelman. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of slaves in free states -- History.
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Constitutional history -- United States.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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United States -- History -- 1849-1877.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Konig, David Thomas, 1947- editor.
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Finkelman, Paul, 1949- editor.
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Bracey, Christopher Alan, 1970- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2010] ix, 281 pages ; 23 cm Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest 9780821419120 (OCoLC)ocn471810772 (DLC)10900870 |
| ISBN |
9780821419113 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0821419110 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780821419120 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0821419129 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780821443286 (electronic bk.) |
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