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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

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The cover of the book Mrs. Dred Scott.

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

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"

 

An article exploring the subject can be found at Lee VanderVelde's and Sandya Subramanian, Mrs. Dred Scott 106 Yale L.J. 1033 (1997).

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