Description:
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History
A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant--and long forgotten--Supreme Court cases in American history.
Brief description: Jonathan M. Bryant is professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He specializes in slavery, emancipation, and constitutional law. He lives in Statesboro, Georgia.
Review Quotes: Jonathan Bryant sheds new and revealing light on a dark chapter in the history of American slavery, and on a Supreme Court decision that, despite its faults, deserves to be better known.--Brian McGinty, author of Lincoln's Greatest Case