Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

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Oxford University Press, 1981 - 326 páginas
This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War.
 

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Introduction
3
Slavery and Race in the American
7
Constitutional System 742
41
Expansion and Slavery in National Politics
55
Toward Judicial Resolution
72
The Taney Court and Judicial Power
102
The Dred Scott Case in Missouri
121
Before the Supreme Court
151
The Opinion of the Court
183
Concurrence Dissent and Public Reaction
214
The Lecompton and Freeport Connections
244
Not Peace but a Sword
273
In the Stream of History
295
Selected Books for Further Reading
309
Index
313
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Página 309 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970; William E.

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Don E. Fehrenbacher is at Stanford University.

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