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1857
1857
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney lead the US Supreme Court in 1857, and presided over the Dred Scott v. Sandford, (1857) case.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney lead the US Supreme Court in 1857, and presided over the Dred Scott v. Sandford, (1857) case.
Dred Scott was the slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857. The Supreme Court decision ruled against granting him his freedom and also declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not U.S. citizens.
Dred Scott
Dred Scott
The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott in 1857 in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford because the Court held that Scott, as a black person, was not a citizen and therefore could not file a lawsuit. The decision also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, stating that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in the territories.
The Supreme Court referred to slaves as property in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
In 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott's application for freedom was rejected. Slavery was declared lawful in every state, because of the court's interpretation of the word 'property' in the Constitution, to include human property.
Dred Scott
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857)The court case was Dred Scott v. Sandford, in 1857.For more information, see Related Questions, below.