Dred Scott's revenge
Subtitle: a legal history of race and freedom in America
By: Andrew P. Napolitano.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781595552655
Subjects: Scott, Dred, -- 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Civil rights -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery comes to the new world; title: American slavery; title: Ratifying and interpreting the constitution; title: Dred Scott and the Missouri compromise; title: The Civil War; title: Abraham Lincoln and human freedom; title: Reconstruction : military rule in the post-Civil War South; title: Jim Crow; title: The federal government orchestrates racism; title: Black education in the South and the end of Jim Crow after Brown v. Board of Education; title: The civil rights legislation of the 1960s and afterward; title: How Democrats and Republicans use racial rhetoric to get elected; title: Justice and law enforcement; title: Baseball.