THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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“The Constitution does not consider slaves to be U.S. citizens. Rather, they are constitutionally protected property of their masters.” Chief Justice Roger Taney authored this opinion-one of the most important and scorned in the nation’s history. Dred Scott, a slave, had moved with his master to Illinois, a free state. He moved again to a slave state, Missouri, and filed suit to gain freedom, under that state’s law of “Once free, always free.” Taney held that Scott had never been free at all, and cited Constitutional grounds for placing the slavery decision in the hands of the states. In trying to put an end to the slavery controversy, Taney instead sped the nation toward civil war. The decision was later overturned by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
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Dred Scott v. Lunsford
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Dred Scott v. Sampson, 1847
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Dred Scott v. Taney
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to their residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited. The odds were in their favor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Taney, a deeply religious Roman Catholic, considered slavery an evil. He had freed the slaves he had inherited before he came to the Supreme Court. It was his belief, however, that slavery was a problem to be resolved gradually and chiefly by the states in which it existed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Originally from Maryland, Taney had been a slaveholder until he emancipated his own slaves in 1818.
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