In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...
This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...
This is equivalent to declaring that black men map be citizens of the United States, and that the dicta to the contrary in the Dred Scott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the ...
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We ...
After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.