The Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law /

The Dred Scott case : historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law / edited by David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey. - 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations. - Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest . - Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig -- Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson -- John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber -- The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis -- An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen -- Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton -- Dred Scott, human dignity, and the quest for a culture of equality / Christopher Alan Bracey -- Dred Scott, racial stereotypes, and the "enduring marks of inferiority" / Leland Ware -- Unmasking the lie : Dred Scott and the antebellum Southern honor culture / Cecil J. Hunt -- Whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves? / John Baugh -- Considering reparations for Dred Scott / Alfred L. Brophy -- Lessons for judges from Scott v. Emerson / Duane Benton -- Missouri law, politics, and the Dred Scott case / Michael A. Wolff -- The strange career of Dred Scott : from Fort Armstrong to Guantanamo Bay / Paul Finkelman.

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Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 --Trials, litigation, etc.


Slavery--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Slavery--Legal status of slaves in free states--History.--United States
Constitutional history--United States.


United States--Race relations--History.
United States--History--1849-1877.


Electronic books.

KF228.S27 / D74 2010

342.7308/7