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Book Talk with author Kelly Kennington "In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America"
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7400 Grant Road. St. Louis, Missouri 63123Dates & Times
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Kelly Kennington is a historian of slavery in the antebellum American South, with a particular focus on how enslaved persons interact with formal and informal systems of law. She received her B.A. in history from Tulane and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. Her first book, In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America (University of Georgia Press, 2017), looks at the cases of enslaved men, women, and children who sued for freedom in St. Louis. Dr. Kennington uses these legal suits for freedom to trace the broader legal culture of St. Louis and to argue for the importance of enslaved people's participation in that legal culture. Dr. Kennington's future research interests include the history of slavery and law in the state of Alabama, with a particular attention to labor conditions and law.
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