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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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Bernstein, Richard, and Jerome Agel. 1989. Into the Third Generation: The Supreme Court. New York: Walker.

Fehrenbacker, Don. 1981. Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Finkelman, Paul. 1997. Dred Scott, Slavery, and Crisis. New York: St. Martin's.

——. 1996. "The Dred Scott Case, Slavery and the Politics of Law." Hamline Law Review 20 (fall): 1–42.

Gunderson, Cory. 2004. The Dred Scott Decision. Edina, Minn.: Abdo.

Herda, D. J. 1994. The Dred Scott Case: Slavery and Citizen-ship. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow.

Streichler, Stuart A. 1997. "Justice Curtis's Dissent in the Dred Scott Case: An Interpretive Study." Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 24 (winter): 509–44.

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