Mrs. Dred Scott A Life on Slavery's Frontier

Name: Mrs. Dred Scott A Life on Slavery's Frontier
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ISBN: 9780199754083

ISBN-10: 019975408X

ISBN-13: 9780199754083

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lea VanderVelde

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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Dramatis Personae


Introduction



Wife 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



The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to Treaty



1837: A Treaty Made before Her Eyes



Marriage: Together Alone



Traveling the Length of the River



A New Baby in a New Land



The Deteriorating Community



Battles and Baptisms



Taliaferro's Last Stand



Leaving Minnesota and Its New Tribunals



While the Doctor Was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43



The House of Chouteau



Black Social Life of St. Louis



The 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



The 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


Appendix


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Captions and Credits


Index