The Dred Scott case : : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law / / edited by David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey.

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Superior document:Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest
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Place / Publishing House:Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2010]
2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of 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.