Am I Not a Man?: The Dred Scott Story - Hardcover

Shurtleff, Mark L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935546007 ISBN 13: 9781935546009

Verlag: Valor Pub, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

An illiterate slave, Dred Scott trusted in an all-white, slave-owning jury to declare him free. But after briefly experiencing the glory of freedom and manhood, a new state Supreme Court ordered the cold steel of the shackles to be closed again around his wrists and ankles. Falling to his knees, Dred cried, "Ain't I a man?" Dred answered his own question by rising and taking his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. Dred ultimately lost his epic battle when the Chief Justice declared that a black man was so inferior that he had "no rights a white man was bound to respect." Dred died not knowing that his unfailing courage led directly to the election of President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Dred Scott's inspiring and compelling true story of adventure, courage, love, hatred, and friendship parellels the history of this nation from the long night of slavery to the narrow crack in the door that would ultimately lead to freedom and equality for all men.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Valor Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1935546007
• ISBN 13: 9781935546009
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 513
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