The Dred Scott Case

  • The Dred Scott Case: Slavery and Citizenship, Revised Edition
    By D.J. Herda

    Sanford, John, 23, 35, 39, 67 Scott, Dred birth, 6 childhood/early life, 6–8 as Emerson's slave, 8–13 freedom grant to, 67 marriage, 10–11 motivations, 21, 25 Scott, Eliza, 12, 67 Scott, Harriet Robinson, 10–14, 24, 67 Scott, William, ...

  • The Dred Scott Case: Testing the Right to Live Free
    By Jennifer Fleischner

    Describes the events and people involved in the Dred Scott case and the effect on the nation Dred Scott was a slave who sued his owner saying that he and his family must be set free because the owner had taken them to live for a period in a ...

  • The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
    By Don Edward Fehrenbacher

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case referred to as "the most frequently...

  • The Dred Scott Case
    By Roger Brooke Taney, Israel Washburn, Horace Gray

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law
    By Paul Finkelman, Christopher Alan Bracey, David Thomas Konig

    ... issue of states' rights and slavery, a controversy that centered for a time on Senator Benton, see Dennis K. Boman, Abiel Leonard: Yankee Slaveholder, EminentJurist, and Passionate Unionist (Lewiston, N.y.: E. Mellen Press, 2002), ...

  • The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
    By Don Edward Fehrenbacher

    Examines the legal bases of slavery and the long-term effects of the case on the American political, legal and judicial systems

  • The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law
    By Paul Finkelman, Christopher Alan Bracey, David Thomas Konig

    The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law presents original research and the reflections of the nation's leading scholars who gathered in St. Louis to mark the 150th anniversary of what was arguably the ...

  • The Dred Scott Case: Slavery and Citizenship
    By D. J. Herda

    Examines the issues leading up to the Dred Scott slavery and citizenship case, including the people involved and the present-day effects of the Court's decision.

  • The Dred Scott Case
    By Roger Brooke Taney, Israel Washburn, Horace Gray

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.