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. DredScott, 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 DredScott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the ...
You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred ...