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Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / Lea VanderVelde.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- VanderVelde, Lea.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Harriet, approximately 1820-1876.
- Scott, Harriet.
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858--Family.
- Scott, Dred.
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858.
- Enslaved women--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved women.
- Families.
- United States.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 480 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Misses Dred Scott
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Wife of a Celebrity 9
- 2 1835: Arriving on the Frontier 13
- 3 Settling In 21
- 4 Entertaining Guests at the Indian Agency 31
- 5 Late Summer Harvest 43
- 6 Wintering Over at St. Peter's Agency 52
- 7 Winters Deep 58
- 8 1836: Spring and the Change of the Guard 67
- 9 Celestial Explorers 85
- 10 The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to Treaty 96
- 11 1837: A Treaty Made before Her Eyes 104
- 12 Marriage: Together Alone 115
- 13 Traveling the Length of the River 127
- 14 A New Baby in a New Land 137
- 15 The Deteriorating Community 145
- 16 Battles and Baptisms 154
- 17 Taliaferro's Last Stand 162
- 18 Leaving Minnesota and Its New Tribunals 168
- 19 While the Doctor Was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43 176
- 20 The House of Chouteau 188
- 21 Black Social Life of St. Louis 193
- 22 The Doctor Returns 200
- 23 1843 Interlude: Jefferson Barracks between Wars of National Expansion 205
- 24 Dred with the Army of Observation and Harriet with the Children in St. Louis 219
- 25 The Courthouse and the Jail 233
- 26 Other Matters at the Courthouse 244
- 27 Filing Suit Again 257
- 28 1849: Trial by Pestilence, Trial by Fire 267
- 29 Declared Free 276
- 30 Missouri Changes Its Course 288
- 31 Before the High Court 305
- 32 Aftermath and Epilogue 320.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-466) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195366563
- 0195366565
- OCLC:
- 221155247
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