A Hard Shove for a "Nation On the Brink": The Impact of Dred Scott

Notes

By Lisa Cozzens

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• ¹ The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (Columbia University Press, 1993), Microsoft Bookshelf '95, CD-ROM (Microsoft Corporation, 1995)

• ² Stampp.

• ³ Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) 250.

• ⁴ Fehrenbacher 262.

• ^* A court official misspelled Sanford's name, making the case into Scott v. Sandford instead of Scott v. Sanford.

• ⁵ Fehrenbacher 270.

• ⁶ Fehrenbacher 272.

• ⁷ Fehrenbacher 276.

• ⁸ Stanley I. Kutler, The Dred Scott Decision: Law or Politics? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967) 4-5.

• ⁹ Stampp 88.

• ¹⁰ Fehrenbacher 305.

• ¹¹ Stampp 91.

• ¹² Fehrenbacher 309.

• ¹³ Kutler 5.

• ¹⁴ Fehrenbacher 315.

• ¹⁵ Vincent C. Hopkins, Dred Scott's Case (New York: Fordham University Press, 1951) 63.

• ¹⁶ Hopkins 63.

• ¹⁷ Hopkins 71.

• ¹⁸ Fehrenbacher 315.

• ¹⁹ Kutler 46-48.

• ²⁰ Kutler 55.

• ²¹ Fehrenbacher 316-319.

• ²² Fehrenbacher 319.

• ²³ Frederick S. Allis, Jr., "Dred Scott Labyrinth," Teachers of History: Essays in Honor of Laurence Bradford Packard, ed. H. Stuart Hughes, Myron P. Gilmor, and Edwin C. Rozwenc (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1954) 343.

• ²⁴ John T. Brooke, Short Notes on the Dred Scott Case (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers, 1861) 4: Lost Cause Press 275 (1971): fiche 1.

• ²⁵ Kutler 103-104.

• ²⁶ Brooke 19.

• ²⁷ Kutler 62.

• ²⁸ Kutler 59.

• ²⁹ Brooke 4.

• ³⁰ Kutler 64.

• ³¹ Kutler 67.

• ³² Kutler 70.

• ³³ Kutler 111.

• ³⁴ Abraham Lincoln, "House Divided" speech, Springfield, Illinois, 16 June 1858, online, C-SPAN, America Online, 29 Oct. 1995.

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