Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical PerspectiveOxford University Press, 1981 - 326 páginas This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War. |
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Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
Slavery and Race in the American | 7 |
Constitutional System 742 | 41 |
Expansion and Slavery in National Politics | 55 |
Toward Judicial Resolution | 72 |
The Taney Court and Judicial Power | 102 |
The Dred Scott Case in Missouri | 121 |
Before the Supreme Court | 151 |
The Opinion of the Court | 183 |
Concurrence Dissent and Public Reaction | 214 |
The Lecompton and Freeport Connections | 244 |
Not Peace but a Sword | 273 |
In the Stream of History | 295 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective Don E. Fehrenbacher Vista previa limitada - 1981 |
Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective Don Edward Fehrenbacher Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 309 - Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970; William E.