Happily, for the whole human family, their rights have been defined, declared, and decided in a court higher than the Supreme Court. Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, May 1857 ...

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 ...

By extending citizenship to those born in the U.S., the 14th Amendment nullified the Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred ...

They will research China's agricultural history; the intersection of immigration, incarceration, and public health in 19th-century New York City; and Caribbean immigrants' use of cricket and reggae to ...

Fuel the facts. Feed your neighbors ... interest was an 1857 report from the U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford — when justices ruled enslaved people and their descendents weren ...

By extending citizenship to those born in the U.S., the 14th Amendment nullified the Supreme Court’s 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that those who descended from enslaved ...