Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857
by
Anne Twitty
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers converge. Formally divided between slave and free territories...