Dred Scott v. Sandford : a brief history with documents /
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- Boston ; New York : Bedford/St. Martins, [2017]
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- Title:
- Dred Scott v. Sandford : a brief history with documents / Paul Finkelman.
- Main Author:
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
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English
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Bedford/St. Martins, 2017
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- Second edition.
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Canadian author: Paul Finkelman, University of Saskatchewan.
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"Perhaps no other Supreme Court decision has had the political impact of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Using a variety of documents that reflect regional opinions and political debates, Paul Finkelman examines the 1857 decision that helped set in motion the events that eventually led to a new birth of freedom and the abolition of slavery in the United States. A revised Introduction reveals new understandings of the case and recently discovered evidence about Dred Scott, his wife Harriet, his owners, his lawyers, and the history of freedom suits in Missouri. New text sources include President James Buchanan’s inaugural address and the post-Civil War Amendments, which collectively reversed the major holdings in Dred Scott. This new edition also contains Questions for Consideration, an updated Selected Bibliography, and a Chronology of Events Related to Dred Scott."
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xv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
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Includes bibliography (pages 231-232) and index.
- ISBN:
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97813190489831319048986
- Publication:
- Boston ; New York : Bedford/St. Martins, [2017]
- Copyright Notice Date:
- ©2017
Table of Contents
- Foreword / Lynne Hunt, David W. Blight, Bonnie G. Smith
- Preface
- Part one. Introduction : The Dred Scott Case, Slavery, and the Politics of law. An Overview of the Dred Scott Case
- A Bad Decision
- A Complex and Confused Case
- Slavery in the Territories
- Who Was Dred Scott?
- Dred Scott Sues for Freedom
- In the Federal Court
- Before the Supreme Court
- Free Blacks under Taney's Constitution : ''They Had No Rights"
- The Status of Slavery in the Territories under Dred Scott
- Part two. The Documents. 1. Opinions of the Justices
- 2. Newspaper Responses to the Dred Scott Decisions. Varieties of Southern Proslavery Opinion
- The Buchanan Administration's Paper Endorses the Decision
- Northern Support for the Dred Scott Decision
- Opposition to the Dred Scott Decision : A Spectrum of Northern Opinion
- Lincoln's Paper Responds
- A War for Public Opinion: The Washington Union and The New York Tribune
- 3. Political Debate in the North. Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Dred Scott Decision
- Congressional Debate
- 4. Reversing Dred Scott : Formal Constitutional Change
- Appendixes. Chronology of Events Related to Dred Scott (1787-1870)
- Questions for Consideration.