This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott ... found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and ...

Taney authored the majority opinion in the 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case where Scott sought freedom due to having lived in a free state. Taney wrote that because Scott was Black ...