Redemption songs : suing for freedom before Dred Scott /
The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of slaves suing for freedom. Most examinations of the case focus on its notorious verdict, and the repercussions that the decision set off-especially the worsening of the sectional crisis that would eventually lead to the Civil War-were extreme. In c...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
VanderVelde, Lea
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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HISTORY
> United States
> State & Local
> South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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