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- 2010525421 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".
- 2010525421 alternative "Mistress Dred Scott".
- 2010525421 contributor B12025692.
- 2010525421 created "2010.".
- 2010525421 date "2010".
- 2010525421 date "2010.".
- 2010525421 dateCopyrighted "2010.".
- 2010525421 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".
- 2010525421 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-466) and index.".
- 2010525421 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.".
- 2010525421 extent "viii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- 2010525421 identifier "9780199754083 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- 2010525421 identifier 2008027920.html.
- 2010525421 issued "2010".
- 2010525421 issued "2010.".
- 2010525421 language "eng".
- 2010525421 publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- 2010525421 spatial "United States".
- 2010525421 subject "E444.S38 V36 2010".
- 2010525421 subject "Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 Family.".
- 2010525421 subject "Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 Trials, litigation, etc.".
- 2010525421 subject "Scott, Harriet, -approximately 1870.".
- 2010525421 subject "Slaves United States Biography.".
- 2010525421 subject "Women slaves United States Biography.".
- 2010525421 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.".
- 2010525421 title "Mistress Dred Scott".
- 2010525421 title "Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / Lea VanderVelde.".
- 2010525421 type "text".