The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0821419110 ISBN 13 : 9780821419113

Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Thomas Konig is a professor of history and a professor of law at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author or editor of articles, books, and documentary collections on American legal history from the first colonial settlements to the Civil War, including Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 and Devising Liberty: Creating and Preserving Freedom in the New American Republic.

Paul Finkelman is an expert on constitutional history, the law of slavery, and the American Civil War. He coedits the Ohio University Press series New Approaches to Midwestern Studies and is the president of Gratz College.

Christopher Alan Bracey is a professor of law at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of Saviors or Sellouts: The Promise and Peril of Black Conservatism, From Booker T. Washington to Condoleezza Rice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0821419110
• ISBN 13: 9780821419113
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Éditeur: Konig David Thomas, Finkelman Paul, Bracey Christopher Alan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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