Dred Scott v. Sandford : opinions and contemporary commentary
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Dred Scott v. Sandford : opinions and contemporary commentary
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- Dred Scott v. Sandford : opinions and contemporary commentary
- Title remainder
- opinions and contemporary commentary
- Statement of responsibility
- with a bibliographic essay by Douglas W. Lind
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- Dred Scott versus Sandford
- Dred Scott v. Sanford
- Subject
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- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
- Slavery -- United States -- Legal status of slaves in free states -- Cases
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Cases
- Howard, Benjamin C., (Benjamin Chew), 1791-1872
- Sanford, John F. A, 1806 or 1807-1857 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Sanford, John F. A, 1806 or 7-1857 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, that all African Americans (free and enslaved) were unable to become American citizens and therefore lacked standing to sue in federal court, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories, was truly monumental in its impact on the nation and immediately generated widespread public debate. When congressional inaction postponed for a year the market availability of copies of the decision, it was Benjamin Howard’s New York, Appleton imprint of the case that the public read and which scholars relied upon as a basis for the earliest and most forceful legal commentary and analysis. From a transmission history and a cultural reception perspective, the importance of this cannot be understated. Howard’s imprint provided the textual ammunition for both sides of a debate which further divided the nation as it marched toward civil war. There currently exists no other single source of Howard’s reproduction of the Dred Scott opinion with the published contemporary commentary contained in this volume. Also, there is a dearth of detailed bibliographic analysis regarding the production and transmission of the decision itself. The introductory bibliographic essay, "The Publication and Transmission History of Dred Scott v. Sandford" addresses many previously unrecorded bibliographic aspects of the decision.--Publisher
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- non fiction
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