Written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders, Dred Scott v. Sandford's reasoning is continuous with the consent theory that surfaced in enslaving states. It treats the denial of ...

Enslaved Black people existed in a vacuum outside citizenship with “no rights that the White man was bound to respect,” as Justice Roger Taney put it so infamously in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, it stripped Black Americans of citizenship, enhanced the power of slave states, and hastened the onset of the Civil War. In Plessy v. Ferguson, it denied the plain ...

The citizenship clause reversed the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had denied citizenship to Black Americans. “Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the ...

The amendment was adopted following the Civil War and had the effect of annulling the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people were excluded ...

The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, ruled that Black Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not considered citizens and had no legal rights under the ...

The 1850s saw another uptick in emigration, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed and the Supreme Court decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford that descendants of slaves were not and never could be U ...