Before Dred Scott

Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Reference & Language, Law
Cover of the book Before Dred Scott by Anne Twitty, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Anne Twitty ISBN: 9781316981597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: October 31, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Anne Twitty
ISBN: 9781316981597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 31, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Shakespeare beyond English by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Non-State Actors as Standard Setters by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book The Women of Colonial Latin America by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Aristotle's Generation of Animals by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Urban Slavery in Colonial Mexico by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Oscan in the Greek Alphabet by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Imagination and the Contemporary Novel by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Letters of the Catholic Poor by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Fracture Mechanics by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Referendums and the European Union by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Eminent Domain by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book International Cultural Heritage Law in Armed Conflict by Anne Twitty
Cover of the book Justification and Excuse in International Law by Anne Twitty
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy