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Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott

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 | #450784 in Books |  2014-10-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.40 x1.10 x9.30l,.0 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Winning Freedom in St Louis - "By the help of God and a good lawyer" - and the Courage of the Enslaved|By Jim Schmidt|"This gave my mother an immense amount of trouble, but she had girded up her loins for the fight, and, knowing that she was right, was resolved, by the help of God and a good lawyer, to win my case against all opposition." - Lucy A. Delaney., "From the Darkness| ||"Redemption Songs is a much-needed addition to the historiography of slavery, American legal history, and the history of the legal profession in the United States."-Annette Gordon-Reed, Journal of American History||"Of the more than 300 newl

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 conventional assessment, a slave losing a lawsuit against his master seems unremarkable. But in fact, that case was just one of many freedom suits brought by slaves in the an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott   |  Lea VanderVelde. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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