ENGLISH

Dred Scott V. Sanford

By Tim McNeese

Book information

Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Year
2006
ISBN
9780791092361, 0791092364
Open Library ID
OL18285631M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2744808 bytes)
Series
Great Supreme Court Decisions
Edition
Library Binding
Pages
121\121
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

On March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled on a case that would decide the fate of a slave named Dred Scott. For 11 years, Scott waited to hear if he would be granted his freedom as his case wound its way through the courts of Missouri and New York. Instead, the Court's decision would rock the American landscape, causing a further split in the already fragile relationship between North and South. Distilling a breadth of material, and supplemented with photographs, sidebars, a chronology, timeline, and more, ''Dred Scott v. Sandford'' traces Scott's suit through the U.S. judicial system. History professor Tim McNeese gives readers a clear understanding of the infamous Supreme Court decision in which all blacks, free and slave, were denied U.S. citizenship.

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