Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from ...

Twitted on all sides for his wife’s ownership of slaves, Chaffee soon fixed up a technical transfer of the Dred Scott family to his wife’s New York brother, John Sandford, who thus became the ...

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Army Surgeon John Emerson, not previously a slave owner, purchased Dred Scott in ... his widow, Irene Sanford, assumed ownership of the Scotts. She rejected Scott’s attempts to buy freedom ...

Sandford. The Dred Scott decision was announced in 1857 ... Instead, Chief Justice John Roberts, in pronouncing the Trump opinion, went beyond the question presented — the Roberts court ...

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 ...

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In the annals of bad Supreme Court decisions, one stands head and shoulders above the rest: Dred Scott v. Sanford, the ruling that African Americans could never become citizens of the United States.

Among the six cases in the document attributed to the NFRA was the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857. Dred Scott? Are you kidding me? Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from ...