"In 1857, a slave sued for his freedom and lost ... The author also looks at the aftermath of the case, including the Civil War, and the great changes in the United States on the issue of slavery. Also included are questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology of the case"--Amazon.com.
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call number/section: 342.7, 342.73, 310
subjects: scott, dred, 1809-1858, trials, litigation, etc, juvenile literature, scott, harriet, approximately 1820-1876, lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, slavery, united states, history, juvenile literature, law and legislation, blair, montgomery, "bleeding kansas", brown v. board of education, citizenship, civil rights, civil rights act of 1875, civil rights act of 1964, civil war, confederate states of american, emancipation proclamation, fourteenth amendment, lincoln, abraham, missouri compromise, sanford, john, united states, history, juvenile literature