Before Dred Scott : slavery and legal culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
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Before Dred Scott : slavery and legal culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
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- Before Dred Scott : slavery and legal culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
- Title remainder
- slavery and legal culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857
- Statement of responsibility
- Anne Twitty, University of Mississippi
- Subject
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- Missouri -- Saint Louis Region
- Missouri, Circuit Court (22nd Circuit)
- Missouri, Circuit Court (22nd Circuit) -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century
- 1800-1899
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " ... Draws on the freedom suits filed in the St. Louis circuit court to construct a ground-breaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where the Ohio,, Mississippi, and the Missouri rivers converge. Formally divided between slave and free territories and states, the American Confluence was nevertheless a site where the borders between slavery and freedom, like the borders within the region itself, were fluid. Such ambiguity produced a radical indeterminacy of status, which, in turn, gave rise to a distinctive legal culture made manifest by the prosecution of hundreds of freedom suits, including the case that ultimately culminated in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in Scott v. Sandford (1847)."--Page [i]
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 342.7308/7
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF482
- LC item number
- .T87 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
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