Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857

Author/Contributor(s):	Allen, Austin
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	05/01/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single issue--slavery--but on a web of assumptions, agendas, and commitments held collectively and individually by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and his colleagues.