000339527 000__ 02687cam\a2200349\a\4500 000339527 001__ 339527 000339527 005__ 20210513123407.0 000339527 008__ 080624s2009\\\\enkabcf\\b\\\\001\0beng\\ 000339527 010__ $$a 2008027920 000339527 020__ $$a9780195366563 (alk. paper) 000339527 020__ $$a0195366565 (alk. paper) 000339527 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn221155247 000339527 035__ $$a339527 000339527 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dBTCTA$$dBAKER$$dYDXCP$$dC#P$$dBWX$$dCDX$$dSGB$$dIAY$$dABG$$dUCDLL$$dNIALS$$dCQU$$dMOF$$dHEBIS 000339527 043__ $$an-us--- 000339527 049__ $$aISEA 000339527 05000 $$aE444.S38$$bV36 2009 000339527 08200 $$a973.7/115092$$222 000339527 1001_ $$aVanderVelde, Lea. 000339527 24510 $$aMrs. Dred Scott :$$ba life on slavery's frontier /$$cLea VanderVelde. 000339527 2463_ $$aMistress Dred Scott 000339527 260__ $$aOxford ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2009. 000339527 300__ $$aviii, 480 p., [6] p. of plates :$$bill., map, ports. ;$$c25 cm. 000339527 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000339527 5050_ $$aWife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue. 000339527 520__ $$aIn telling the life of Harriet, Dred's 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 000339527 60010 $$aScott, Harriet,$$dapproximately 1820-1876. 000339527 60010 $$aScott, Dred,$$d1809-1858$$xFamily. 000339527 60010 $$aScott, Dred,$$d1809-1858$$vTrials, litigation, etc. 000339527 650_0 $$aWomen slaves$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000339527 650_0 $$aSlaves$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000339527 85200 $$bgen$$hE444.S38$$iV36$$i2009 000339527 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008027920.html 000339527 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:339527$$pGLOBAL_SET 000339527 980__ $$aBIB 000339527 980__ $$aBOOK