The Dred Scott case
Subtitle: historical and contemporary perspectives on race and law
By: edited by David Thomas Konig, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey
Series: Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest; Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780821419113; 9780821419120
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional law and the legitimation of history : the enduring force of Roger Taney's opinion of the court / David Thomas Konig; title: Dred Scott versus the Dred Scott case : the history and memory of a signal moment in American slavery, 1857-2007 / Adam Arenson; title: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the problem of constitutional evil / Mark Graber; title: The legacy of the Dred Scott case : the uncertain course of emancipation in Missouri / Louis Gerteis; title: An exaggerated legacy : Dred Scott and substantive due process / Austin Allen; title: Emancipation and contract law : litigating human property after the Civil War / Daniel W. Hamilton; title: Dred Scott, human dignity, and the quest for a culture of equality / Christopher Alan Bracey; title: Dred Scott, racial stereotypes, and the "enduring marks of inferiority" / Leland Ware; title: Unmasking the lie : Dred Scott and the antebellum Southern honor culture / Cecil J. Hunt; title: Whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves? / John Baugh; title: Considering reparations for Dred Scott / Alfred L. Brophy; title: Lessons for judges from Scott v. Emerson / Duane Benton; title: Missouri law, politics, and the Dred Scott case / Michael A. Wolff; title: The strange career of Dred Scott : from Fort Armstrong to Guantánamo Bay / Paul Finkelman.