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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821443286 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 --Trials, litigation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--Law and legislation--History.--United States<br/>Slavery--Legal status of slaves in free states--History.--United States<br/>Constitutional history--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Race relations--History.<br/>United States--History--1849-1877.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF228.S27  / D74 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>342.7308/7