Mrs. Dred Scott is an ambitious account of the life of an unlettered woman-Harriet Scott, wife of Dred Scott-who left virtually no historical record of herself. It chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis and finally to the infamous Supreme Court case, recovering the life of an important player in one of the key episodes in American legal history. INDICE: 1: Wife of a Celebrity; 2: 1835: Arriving on the Frontier; 3: Settling In; 4: Entertaining Guests at the Indian Agency; 5: Late Summer Harvest; 6: Wintering Over at St. Peter's Agency; 7: Winters Deep; 8: The Change of the Guard; 9: Celestial Explorers; 10: The Call of the Wood as a Prelude to Treaty; 11: A Treaty Made before Her Eyes; 12: The Master Departs, Together Alone; 13: Traveling the Length of the River; 14: New Baby in a New Land; 15: The Deteriorating Community; 16: Battles and Baptisms; 17: Taliaferro's Last Stand; 18: Leaving Minnesota Trying Courts: The Justice of Frontier Trials; 19: While the Doctor was Away: St. Louis, 1840-43; 20: The House of Chouteau; 21: Black Social Life of St. Louis; 22: The Doctor Returns; 23: 1843 Interlude: Jeff Barracks between Wars of National Expansion; 24: Harriet and Her Children in St. Louis; 25: The Courthouse and the Jail; 26: Other Matters at the Courthouse; 27: Filing Suit Again; 28: Trial by Pestilence, Trial by Fire; 29: Declared Free; 30: Missouri Changes its Course; 31: Before the High Court
- ISBN: 978-0-19-975408-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés