A Life on Slavery's Frontier
by
Lea VanderVelde
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and...