Before Dred Scott Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence 1787 1857 1st edition by Anne Twitty 110753089X 978-1107530898

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 110753089X

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107530898

Author: Anne Twitty

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 territories and states, the American Confluence was nevertheless a site where the borders between slavery and freedom, like the borders within the region itself, were fluid. Such ambiguity produced a radical indeterminacy of status, which, in turn, gave rise to a distinctive legal culture made manifest by the prosecution of hundreds of freedom suits, including the case that ultimately culminated in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott vs Sandford. Challenging dominant trends in legal history, Before Dred Scott argues that this distinctive legal culture, above all, was defined by ordinary people’s remarkable understanding of and appreciation for formal law.

 

Before Dred Scott Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence 1787 1857 1st Table of contents:

1 – A Radical Indeterminacy of Statuspp 27-70

2 – “With the Ease of a Veteran Litigant”pp 71-95

3 – “By the Help of God and a Good Lawyer”pp 96-126

4 – Slavery from Liberty to Equalitypp 129-154

5 – “Working His Emancipation”pp 155-179

6 – Exploiting the Uncertainties of Federalismpp 180-209

7 – Remembering Slavery and Freedom in the American Confluence

 

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