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Dred Scott v. Sandford : a brief history with documents / Paul Finkelman.
LIBRA KF4545.S5 F558 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkelman, Paul, 1949-
- Series:
- Bedford series in history and culture
- The Bedford series in history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Scott, Dred.
- Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 1807-1857--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Sanford, John F. A.
- Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 1807-1857.
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858.
- Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- History.
- Missouri compromise.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Dred Scott versus Sandford
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Bedford Books, [1997]
- Summary:
- The only book on Dred Scott built around primary documents, this brief text examines the 1857 Supreme Court case - one of the most controversial and notorious judicial decisions in U.S. history - in which a slave unsuccessfully sued for his freedom. In addition to excerpts from each justice's opinion, contemporary editorials and newspaper articles, and pertinent excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the book includes a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the slavery controversy in antebellum America. Helpful editorial features include headnotes, maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Introduction: The Dred Scott Case, Slavery, and the Politics of Law An Overview of the Dred Scott Case
- A Bad Decision
- A Complex and Confused Case
- Slavery in the Territories
- Who Was Dred Scott?
- Dred Scott Sues for Freedom
- In the Federal Court
- The Jurisdictional Issue and the Plea in Abatement
- The Case in the Federal District Court
- Before the Supreme Court
- The Judges
- The Compromise Not Taken
- The Jurisdictional Question
- Free Blacks under Taney's Constitution: "They Had No Rights"
- The Status of Slavery in the Territories under Dred Scott
- The Territories Clause
- The Fifth Amendment
- Law as Politics
- The Politics of Law
- The Republican Fear of a Conspiracy
- The Nationalization of Slavery
- The Democratic Response
- Epilogue
- Part 2 The Documents
- 1 Opinions of the Justices
- Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, Opinion of the Court in Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error v. John F. A. Sandford
- Justice James M. Wayne, Concurring Opinion
- Justice Samuel Nelson, Concurring Opinion
- Justice Robert Cooper Grier, Concurring Opinion
- Justice Peter V. Daniel, Concurring Opinion
- Justice John Archibald Campbell, Concurring Opinion
- Justice John Catron, Concurring Opinion
- Justice John McLean, Dissenting Opinion
- Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Dissenting Opinion
- 2 Newspaper Responses to the Dred Scott Decision
- Varieties of Southern ProSlavery Opinion
- Enquirer (Richmond), The Dred Scott Case, March 10, 1857
- Mercury (Charleston), The Dred Scott Case û Supreme Court on the Rights of the South, April 2, 1857
- Daily Picayune (New Orleans), Citizenship, March 21, 1857
- The Buchanan Administration's Paper Endorses the Decision
- Union (Washington, D.C.), The Dred Scott Case, March 12, 1857
- Northern Support for the Dred Scott Decision
- Journal of Commerce (New York), The Decision of the Supreme Court, March 11, 1857
- Journal of Commerce (New York), The Dred Scott Case, March 12, 1857
- Post (Pittsburgh), The Dred Scott Case, March 14, 1857
- Post (Pittsburgh), Seeking an Issue, March 17, 1857
- Opposition to the Dred Scott Decision: A Spectrum of Northern Opinion
- Tribune (New York), March 7, 1857
- Daily Times (New York), The Slavery Question û The Decision of the Supreme Court, March 9, 1857
- Evening Post (New York), The Supreme Court of the United States, March 7, 1857
- Independent (New York), Wickedness of the Decision in the Supreme Court against the African Race, March 19, 1857
- Register (Salem), The U.S. Supreme Court, March 12, 1857
- Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal (Boston), The Late Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, March 18, 1857
- Lincoln's Paper Responds
- Tribune (Chicago), Who Are Negroes? March 12, 1857
- Tribune (Chicago), The Dred Scott Case, March 17, 1857
- Tribune (Chicago), Judge Curtis's Opinion, March 19, 1857
- A War for Public Opinion: The Washington Union and The New York Tribune
- Union (Washington, D.C.), Unreasonable Complaints, March 21, 1857
- Tribune (New York), Judge Taney's Opinion, March 21, 1857
- Tribune (New York), Editorial, March 21, 1857
- Tribune (New York), Editorial, March 25, 1857
- Union (Washington, D.C.), The Supreme Court and the New York Tribune, March 28, 1857
- 3 Political Debate in the North
- Frederick Douglass, The Dred Scott Decision: Speech at New York, on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May 11, 1857
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Dred Scott Decision
- Abraham Lincoln, The "House Divided" Speech at Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858
- Stephen A. Douglas, Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 1858
- Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858
- Stephen A. Douglas, Speech at Springfield, Illinois, July 17, 1858
- The Debate at Freeport: Lincoln's Questions and Douglas's Answers, August 27, 1858
- The Debate at Jonesboro, September 15, 1858
- Congressional Debate
- "Bust of Chief Justice Taney," Congressional Globe, February 23, 1865.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 031212807X
- 0312115946
- OCLC:
- 36644463
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