Jonathan M. Bryant

This is a very thorough book and gives a lot of detail about the supreme court case, the surrounding legal and political climate and even international maritime law.
I wish there had been more of a human element. As with so many books involving slavery, the voices of most of the people involved were lost, as they were not yet literate in English and, even if they were, their writings were unlikely to be preserved.Still wish more letter and diary entries from the lawyers and judges involved had surfaced… (more)