Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde.
In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish the...
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Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | viii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :; ill., map, ports. |
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