Slavery, Law, and Politics : The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective

Don E Fehrenbacher
Oxford University Press, USA
9780195028836
0-19-502883-X

This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters.

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and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing a masterful review of the issues before America on the eve of the Civil War.