Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court ...

Today it is the South that talks of impeachment and nullification; after Dred Scott — until Lincoln went to the White House — these nostrums were bruited about in the North.

On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Dred Scott case, which had a direct impact on the coming of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's presidency four years later.

The Dred Scott decision would exacerbate sectional tensions between North and South. Many legal authorities contend that with its overall consequences it is the worst decision ever rendered by our ...

The 13th Amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery, and the 14th Amendment in 1868, which granted citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States, nullified the Dred Scott decision.

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Kate Taney Billingsley grew up struggling with her family history. Her ancestor Roger B. Taney was the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, issued March 6, 1857 ...

President James Buchanan thought that a binding Supreme Court decision legitimizing slavery would bring the country together. Currier & Ives Lithography Company, after Mathew B. Brady/National ...

Dred Scott, American, ca 1800 - 1858 Description A first edition, octavo volume of The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court with sewn self-wrappers. The title and publishing ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County Parks and Recreation is hosting a compelling traveling exhibit on slavery this weekend. On Saturday, groups delved deep into Black history at the North ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.