This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...
Chief On March 6, 1857, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney oversaw a 7-2 vote against enslaved spouses Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, who ...
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, where ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...
In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...
Neighbour's thoughtful but inert debut novel, a fictionalized biography of Dred Scott, depicts the slave whose suit for freedom was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, a legal and political ...
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