Before Dred Scott : slavery and legal culture in the American confluence, 1787-1857 / Anne Twitty, University of Mississippi.

Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers converge. Formally divided between slave and free territo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Twitty, Anne Silverwood, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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