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  2. Dred Scott v. Sandford - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case on the citizenship of African-Americans 1857 United States Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 11–14, 1856 Reargued December 15–18, 1856 Decided March 6, 1857 Full case name Dred Scott v. John F. A ...

  3. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and ...

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    The book explores the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford of 1857, which ruled that the U.S. Congress could not regulate slavery in the territories, that the Constitution did not regard Black people as citizens, and that Black people "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

  4. Dred Scott - Wikipedia

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    Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott

  5. Dred Scott decision still resonates today - AOL

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    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.

  6. Supreme Court cases of the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Ex parte Bollman (1807) was an early case that made many important arguments about the power of the Supreme Court, as well as the constitutional definition of treason. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Dred Scott, a slave owned by a Dr. Emerson, was taken from Missouri to a free state and then back to Missouri again. Scott sued, claiming that his ...

  7. Maryland removes statue of Chief Justice who wrote pro ... - AOL

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    Crews in state capital Annapolis hitched straps overnight to the 145-year-old bronze statue outside State House and lifted it from its base with a crane.

  8. Republican group cites notorious Dred Scott ruling as reason ...

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  9. Don E. Fehrenbacher - Wikipedia

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    Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian. [1] He wrote on politics, slavery, and Abraham Lincoln.He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, his book about the Dred Scott Decision. [2]