Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

The Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) is relevant today. The justices decided the states had the right to legalize slavery; thus, guaranteeing the constitutional right of slave owners in the ...

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Economic historians usually are mistaken when looking at the causes of the Panic of 1857. Douglas E. French sets the record ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Henry Geyer, who was elected by the Missouri Legislature to replace U.S. Sen. Thomas Hart Benton over the issue of slavery. Geyer ...

The notorious Dred Scott decision held that Blacks were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., led the effort in the House to remove the Taney bust.

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