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- 2008027920 abstract "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 their freedom. --from publisher description".
- 2008027920 alternative "Mistress Dred Scott".
- 2008027920 contributor B11104383.
- 2008027920 created "2009.".
- 2008027920 date "2009".
- 2008027920 date "2009.".
- 2008027920 dateCopyrighted "2009.".
- 2008027920 description "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 their freedom. --from publisher description".
- 2008027920 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.".
- 2008027920 description "Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue.".
- 2008027920 extent "viii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- 2008027920 identifier "0195366565 (alk. paper)".
- 2008027920 identifier "9780195366563 (alk. paper)".
- 2008027920 identifier 2008027920.html.
- 2008027920 issued "2009".
- 2008027920 issued "2009.".
- 2008027920 language "eng".
- 2008027920 publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- 2008027920 spatial "United States".
- 2008027920 subject "E444.S38 V36 2009".
- 2008027920 subject "Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 Family.".
- 2008027920 subject "Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 Trials, litigation, etc.".
- 2008027920 subject "Scott, Harriet, -approximately 1870.".
- 2008027920 subject "Slaves United States Biography.".
- 2008027920 subject "Women slaves United States Biography.".
- 2008027920 tableOfContents "Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue.".
- 2008027920 title "Mistress Dred Scott".
- 2008027920 title "Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / Lea VanderVelde.".
- 2008027920 type "text".