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by Gregory J. Wallance

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In the early 1850s, Arba Crane, a young Harvard Law School graduate, arrived in St Louis to begin his law career. Working alone late in the evenings, Crane forms a friendship with the office janitor, a slave named Dred Scott. As Scott recounts his life as a slave, Crane realizes that Scott has a legal claim to freedom and persuades him to file a lawsuit. Crane fights for Scott's rights for years. The case reaches the US Supreme Court before a spellbound country. But the Court's catastrophic decision in Scott v. Sandford holds that slaves are property without rights and that Congress has no power to halt the spread of slavery. While the decision marks the beginning of the path to civil war, it is not the end of Dred Scott's quest for freedom. Two Men Before the Storm is a work of fiction (with detailed historical endnotes) based on historical events: the profound friendship between a young lawyer and a slave and a fight for justice that fundamentally changed our nation.

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A girl stood on the platform, the man beside her, in a top hat and formal coat, waving a piece of paper.

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  • Title Two Men Before the Storm: Arba Crane's Recollection of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court Case That Started the Civil War
  • Author Gregory J. Wallance
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 341
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenleaf Book Group, AUSTIN, TEXAS
  • Publication date September 15, 2005
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9781929774364 / 1929774362
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.08 x 0.94 in (22.91 x 15.44 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005928056
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Ebony, 04/01/2006, Page 26
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