Redemption Songs Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott

Name: Redemption Songs
Author: Lea Vandervelde

Auteur: Lea Vandervelde

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Lea Vandervelde

Engels
Hardcover
9780199927296
23 oktober 2014
320 pagina's

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Dred Scott v. Sanford is the most famous-and also the most infamous-Supreme Court decision in American history. Justice Roger Taney's ruling in favor of Scott's owner effectively extended the reach of the slave system far beyond the South, and was instrumental in worsening the sectional crisis. While the decision was disastrous, what is often overlooked is the fact that in certain circumstances slaves could avail themselves of the legal system. As it turns out, Scott was one among many slave litigants who took to the courts and in so doing helped reshape the parameters of American slavery. In Redemption Songs, Lea VanderVelde moves far beyond the Scott case through chapter-length accounts of a dozen slave suits in the state of Missouri. VanderVelde covers the Scott case, but casts it in relief against a wide variety of trials involving slave litigants. In one instance, an owner freed his slaves, but they were seized by the owner's creditors. Were they free or not? Another case revolved around the fact that the litigant had Native American as well as black ancestors. Which ancestry was decisive? Another dispute involved a Mississippi owner's will, which included only vague instructions to manumit his slaves into Illinois. In combination, the stories behind the cases provide a genuinely multifaceted portrait of slavery in late antebellum America. While hundreds of books have been written about slavery, in the main they tend to be either microhistories of individual slaves and slave families or broad social histories of the peculiar institution. Redemption Songs uniquely features both approaches. VanderVelde not only knits together the stories of a dozen distinct individuals with one thing in common-their status as litigants-and little else, she also provides a rich and eye-opening account of the legal foundations of the larger system. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how the system operated and how slaves attempted to navigate through it in the most trying of circumstances.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 23 oktober 2014
Aantal pagina's: 320
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Hoofdauteur: Lea Vandervelde
Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press Inc

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 237 mm
Verpakking lengte: 26 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 538 g

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Categorieën: Rechten

Geschiedenis

Recht Algemeen

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Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Taal: Engels
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