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Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American
Language: en
Pages: 311
Pages: 311
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread in antebellum American
Language: en
Pages: 301
Pages: 301
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
An analysis of slave and slaveholder understanding and manipulation of formal legal systems in the region known as the American Confluence during the antebellum
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous i
Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
In a largely previously untold story, from 1865 to 1950, black litigants throughout the South took on white southerners in civil suits. Drawing on almost a thou
