Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier by Lea Vandervelde (English) Paper

Description: Mrs. Dred Scott by Lea Vandervelde In telling the life of Harriet, Dreds wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. --from publisher description FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the cases signal importance as a turning point in Americas history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the cases judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dreds wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed keysources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detectivework, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriets life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high courts notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scotts life through innovative readings of journals, militaryrecords, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of acentral event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans. Author Biography Lea VanderVelde is Josephine Witte Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Table of Contents IntroductionChapter 1: Wife of a CelebrityChapter 2: 1835: Arriving on the FrontierChapter 3: Settling InChapter 4: Entertaining Guests at the Indian AgencyChapter 5: Late Summer HarvestChapter 6: Wintering Over at St. Peters AgencyChapter 7: Winters DeepChapter 8: The Change of the GuardChapter 9: Celestial ExplorersChapter 10: The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to TreatyChapter 11: A Treaty Made before Her EyesChapter 12: The Master Departs, Together AloneChapter 13: Traveling the Length of the RiverChapter 14: New Baby in a New LandChapter 15: The Deteriorating CommunityChapter 16: Battles and BaptismsChapter 17: Taliaferros Last StandChapter 18: Leaving Minnesota Trying Courts: The Justice of Frontier TrialsChapter 19: While the Doctor was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43Chapter 20: The House of ChouteauChapter 21: Black Social Life of St. LouisChapter 22: The Doctor ReturnsChapter 23: 1843 Interlude: Jeff Barracks between Wars of National ExpansionChapter 24: Harriet and Her Children in St. LouisChapter 25: The Courthouse and the JailChapter 26: Other Matters at the CourthouseChapter 27: Filing Suit AgainChapter 28: Trial by Pestilence, Trial by FireChapter 29: Declared FreeChapter 30: Missouri Changes its CourseChapter 31: Before the High Court Review "In a remarkable act of historical recovery, VanderVelde resurrects the life of Harriet Scott."--Martha A. Sandweiss, The Washington Post"Through Harriet Scotts life, the author is able to create a valuable portrait of the development of slavery on the U.S. frontier during an era in which that scourge was leading the country toward civil war. Despite the wealth of historical knowledge presented, the heart of this well-researched work is the tragic tale of how a loving familys effort to gain their freedom was brutally rejected by Supreme Court justices bent on maintaining the institution ofslavery at all costs. Essential for academic libraries and highly recommended for public libraries."--Library Journal, starred review"Groundbreaking....Mrs. Dred Scott is a sophisticated reconstruction revealing a fundamental dimension of the Dred Scott saga."--Books & Culture"Utilizing a wide array of primary and secondary sources, VanderVelde pieces together an amazing amount of detail surrounding Harriets life despite the lack of direct source material from Harriet herself....Mrs. Dred Scott truly is history from the bottom up as its best."--Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, Civil War Book Review"This is an extraordinary piece of historical research. In Mrs. Dred Scott, Lea VanderVelde provides, for the first time, a full picture of the role and significance of Scotts wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, in one of the most important cases ever decided by the Supreme Court. VanderVelde presents a powerful description of the Scotts experiences at various military posts on the rough northwest frontier. In doing so, she adds an important dimension tounderstanding Justice Taneys opinion in the Dred Scott case."--Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania"The fascinating, fact-filled story of an illiterate slave woman who sued persistently for her freedom over an eleven-year period and gained it in the end -- no thanks to the most notorious Supreme Court decision in U.S. history."--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848"Lea VanderVelde reminds us of what lawyers too often forget, that very real human beings are the subjects of the great cases of constitutional law. Among the human beings involved in the infamous Dred Scott case was Harriet Scott, Dreds wife. Given the paucity of conventional materials about specific slaves, VanderVelde does a remarkable job of historical excavation to reconstruct the circumstances of her life. She illuminates American social, as well aslegal, history. A bravura performance!"--Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School and author of Our Undemocratic Constitution"Lea VanderVelde wisely appreciates the significance of lives that have long been invisible to historians and constitutional scholars. She has worked with diligence and ingenuity to recover the lost voice of Harriet Robinson Scott. Our understanding of the Supreme Courts infamous and consequential decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford will be forever changed and profoundly enriched by her work."--Peggy Cooper Davis, author of Neglected Stories: TheConstitution and Family Values"VanderVelde is to be congratulated for uncovering every possible source that could shed light on Harriet [Scotts] life."--American Historical ReviewVanderVelde does what no other biographer has. She places Mrs. Dred Scott at the center of a well-known moment in American history for a greater understanding of the significant efforts by subordinate individuals to influence the circumstances of their lives."--Journal of American History"[T]he method of the book deserves praise on several counts."--John Saillant, Western Michigan University Long Description Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the cases signal importance as a turning point in Americas history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the cases judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dreds wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed keysources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriets life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsinfrontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high courts notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scotts life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is atonce a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including thestatus of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans. Review Text "In a remarkable act of historical recovery, VanderVelde resurrects the life of Harriet Scott."--Martha A. Sandweiss, The Washington Post"Through Harriet Scotts life, the author is able to create a valuable portrait of the development of slavery on the U.S. frontier during an era in which that scourge was leading the country toward civil war. Despite the wealth of historical knowledge presented, the heart of this well-researched work is the tragic tale of how a loving familys effort to gain their freedom was brutally rejected by Supreme Court justices bent on maintaining the institution ofslavery at all costs. Essential for academic libraries and highly recommended for public libraries."--Library Journal, starred review"Groundbreaking.... Mrs. Dred Scott is a sophisticated reconstruction revealing a fundamental dimension of the Dred Scott saga." --Books & Culture"Utilizing a wide array of primary and secondary sources, VanderVelde pieces together an amazing amount of detail surrounding Harriets life despite the lack of direct source material from Harriet herself.... Mrs. Dred Scott truly is history from the bottom up as its best."--Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, Civil War Book Review"This is an extraordinary piece of historical research. In Mrs. Dred Scott, Lea VanderVelde provides, for the first time, a full picture of the role and significance of Scotts wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, in one of the most important cases ever decided by the Supreme Court. VanderVelde presents a powerful description of the Scotts experiences at various military posts on the rough northwest frontier. In doing so, she adds an important dimension tounderstanding Justice Taneys opinion in the Dred Scott case."--Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania"The fascinating, fact-filled story of an illiterate slave woman who sued persistently for her freedom over an eleven-year period and gained it in the end -- no thanks to the most notorious Supreme Court decision in U.S. history."--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848"Lea VanderVelde reminds us of what lawyers too often forget, that very real human beings are the subjects of the great cases of constitutional law. Among the human beings involved in the infamous Dred Scott case was Harriet Scott, Dreds wife. Given the paucity of conventional materials about specific slaves, VanderVelde does a remarkable job of historical excavation to reconstruct the circumstances of her life. She illuminates American social, as well aslegal, history. A bravura performance!"--Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School and author of Our Undemocratic Constitution"Lea VanderVelde wisely appreciates the significance of lives that have long been invisible to historians and constitutional scholars. She has worked with diligence and ingenuity to recover the lost voice of Harriet Robinson Scott. Our understanding of the Supreme Courts infamous and consequential decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford will be forever changed and profoundly enriched by her work."--Peggy Cooper Davis, author of Neglected Stories: The Constitutionand Family Values"VanderVelde is to be congratulated for uncovering every possible source that could shed light on Harriet [Scotts] life." -- American Historical ReviewVanderVelde does what no other biographer has. She places Mrs. Dred Scott at the center of a well-known moment in American history for a greater understanding of the "significant efforts by subordinate individuals to influence the circumstances of their lives." -- Journal of American History"...the method of the book deserves praise on several counts."--John Saillant, Western Michigan University Review Quote "In a remarkable act of historical recovery, VanderVelde resurrects the life of Harriet Scott."--Martha A. Sandweiss, The Washington Post "Through Harriet Scotts life, the author is able to create a valuable portrait of the development of slavery on the U.S. frontier during an era in which that scourge was leading the country toward civil war. Despite the wealth of historical knowledge presented, the heart of this well-researched work is the tragic tale of how a loving familys effort to gain their freedom was brutally rejected by Supreme Court justices bent on maintaining the institution of slavery at all costs. Essential for academic libraries and highly recommended for public libraries."--Library Journal, starred review "Groundbreaking....Mrs. Dred Scott is a sophisticated reconstruction revealing a fundamental dimension of the Dred Scott saga."--Books & Culture "Utilizing a wide array of primary and secondary sources, VanderVelde pieces together an amazing amount of detail surrounding Harriets life despite the lack of direct source material from Harriet herself....Mrs. Dred Scott truly is history from the bottom up as its best."--Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, Civil War Book Review "This is an extraordinary piece of historical research. In Mrs. Dred Scott, Lea VanderVelde provides, for the first time, a full picture of the role and significance of Scotts wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, in one of the most important cases ever decided by the Supreme Court. VanderVelde presents a powerful description of the Scotts experiences at various military posts on the rough northwest frontier. In doing so, she adds an important dimension to understanding Justice Taneys opinion in the Dred Scott case."--Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania "The fascinating, fact-filled story of an illiterate slave woman who sued persistently for her freedom over an eleven-year period and gained it in the end -- no thanks to the most notorious Supreme Court decision in U.S. history."--Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 "Lea VanderVelde reminds us of what lawyers too often forget, that very real human beings are the subjects of the great cases of constitutional law. Among the human beings involved in the infamous Dred Scott case was Harriet Scott, Dreds wife. Given the paucity of conventional materials about specific slaves, VanderVelde does a remarkable job of historical excavation to reconstruct the circumstances of her life. She illuminates American social, as well as legal, history. A bravura performance!"--Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School and author of Our Undemocratic Constitution "Lea VanderVelde wisely appreciates the significance of lives that have long been invisible to historians and constitutional scholars. She has worked with diligence and ingenuity to recover the lost voice of Harriet Robinson Scott. Our understanding of the Supreme Courts infamous and consequential decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford will be forever changed and profoundly enriched by her work."--Peggy Cooper Davis, author of Neglected Stories: The Constitution and Family Values "VanderVelde is to be congratulated for uncovering every possible source that could shed light on Harriet [Scotts] life."--American Historical Review VanderVelde does what no other biographer has. She places Mrs. Dred Scott at the center of a well-known moment in American history for a greater understanding of the significant efforts by subordinate individuals to influence the circumstances of their lives."--Journal of American History "[T]he method of the book deserves praise on several counts."--John Saillant, Western Michigan University Feature Selling point: As it is the first serious consideration of all of the litigants involved in the Dred Scott Trial, this book sheds new and provocative light on the forces leading up to and driving the infamous Supreme Court caseSelling point: Parses a wealth of original historical records to provide not just the story of Harriet Scott, but also a sweeping and intimate look at antebellum life--providing a new model for investigating and writing social historySelling point: Compelling study of womens daily life and work, both on the frontier and in the city and of slaves and slave-holding classes, that reveals the ways in which women exercised power and influence in public life Details ISBN019975408X Language English ISBN-10 019975408X ISBN-13 9780199754083 Media Book Format Paperback Subtitle A Life on Slaverys Frontier DEWEY 306.3620973 Short Title MRS DRED SCOTT Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2011-01-06 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-01-06 AU Release Date 2011-01-06 NZ Release Date 2011-01-06 US Release Date 2011-01-06 Illustrations 53 Halftone Illustrator Anais Goldemberg Edited by Leif Wenar Birth 1953 Qualifications PhD Translator Carolyn Hammond Affiliation Group of Policy Advisers, European Commission Position Senior Lecturer Author Lea Vandervelde Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780195366563 Audience General Pages 498 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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