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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2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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