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book revi ews In the Shadow of “Dred Scott”: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America. By Kelly M. Kennington. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. Pp. 344. Cloth, $54.95.) Before “Dred Scott”: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787–1857. By Anne Twitty. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 260. Cloth, $49.99; paper, $31.99.) In June 2012, Saint Louis was ahead of the curve. That month, the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation and the National Park Service unveiled a statue of Dred and Harriet Scott on the south-facing lawn of the city’s Old Courthouse. The monument was a reparation of sorts for the cou- ple’s defeat in Scott v. Sandford (1857). The state of Maryland caught up in 2017, balancing the equation. First in Frederick and then in Baltimore and Annapolis, officials took down likenesses of U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Roger Taney, a defender of slavery and responsible for thwarting the Scotts’ quest for freedom. The reinterpretation of history drove these changes. When descendants of the Scotts and of Taney appeared together in March 2017, they urged a better understanding of the past: “The Scotts and the Taneys believe that
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