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The University of Iowa

Lea VanderVelde

Legal Historian

  • About
  • Redemption Songs
  • Mrs. Dred Scott
  • Law of the Frontier
  • The World of Work
  • Other Works
  • Nobel Peace Prize 2014 Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
  • Collaborations & Awards

Mrs. Dred Scott

Life on Slavery's Frontier

Book Reviews

Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, Civil War Book Review 

Peter Charles Hoffer, Project MUSE 

Harper Barnes, Special to the Post-Dispatch 

Martha A. Sandweiss, Invisible Woman, Book World Podcast, Washington Post  

Amos N. Jones, Books and Culture a Christian Review

Book Cover of Mrs. Dred Scott: Life on Slavery's Frontier
Press Links: 
Supreme Court: "Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857"
Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision - 1857 -- YouTube
Washington Post: "Invisible Woman"
Iowa Now "Iowa law professor leads dialogue session about domestic slavery in the Northwest"