Bibliograph

Dred Scott's revenge, a legal history of race and freedom in America, Andrew P. Napolitano

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Label

Dred Scott's revenge, a legal history of race and freedom in America, Andrew P. Napolitano

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-277) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dred Scott's revenge

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

301550962

Responsibility statement

Andrew P. Napolitano

Sub title

a legal history of race and freedom in America

Table Of Contents

Slavery comes to the New World -- American slavery -- Ratifying and interpreting the Constitution -- Dred Scott and the Missouri Compromise -- The Civil War -- Abraham Lincoln and human freedom -- Reconstruction : military rule in the post-Civil War South -- Jim Crow -- The federal government orchestrates racism -- Black education in the South and the end of Jim Crow after Brown v. Board of Education -- The civil rights legislation of the 1960s and afterward -- How Democrats and Republicans use racial rhetoric to get elected -- Justice and law enforcement -- Baseball

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