An engraving of Dred Scott (1795-1858), an African American plaintiff in the Dred Scott decision handed down by the Supreme Court in 1857, which ruled that Scott as a African American was not a US ...

Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

What’s shocking is that among the six Supreme Court cases they cite is the notorious Dred Scott v. Sandford decision from 1857. This ruling is often labeled one of the most reviled decisions in ...

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

⚖️ Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) The History of the 13th and 14th Amendments The Privileges or Immunities Clause ⚖️ The Slaughter-House Cases (1873) ⚖️ Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) ...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said this week the Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford — which held that free or enslaved black people were not U.S. citizens — remains ...

Last month, a New Yorker article prompted discussion about the teaching of Dred Scott v. Sandford and other cases concerning slavery and racial subjugation in Constitutional Law classes.

The U.S. Supreme Court precisely 164 years ago on March 6, 1857 in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case declared that Blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” ...

For years, enslaved Dred Scott and his family fought for their ... The Scotts sued their current owner, Irene Sanford, in a legal dispute that dragged on for an entire decade.