Into this atmosphere came for decision the Dred Scott case, started in a federal district court in Missouri while the Kansas-Nebraska Act was winging its way through Congress, but dealing with ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford ... found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." For Douglass, the decision would ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing ...