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Dred Scott and the dangers of a political court
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Ethan Greenberg |
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 is widely (and correctly) regarded as the very worst in the long history of the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision held that no African American could ever be a U.S. cit… |
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Justice in blue and gray
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Stephen C. Neff |
Overview: Stephen Neff offers the first comprehensive study of the wide range of legal issues arising from the American Civil War, many of which resonate in debates to this day. Neff examines the law… |
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A Slaveholders' Union
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George William Van Cleve |
From the University of Chicago Press:
"After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of th… |
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Natural law and the antislavery constitutional tradition
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Justin Buckley Dyer |
"Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition is a succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War"-- |
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Who freed the slaves?
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Leonard L. Richards |
"In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation may have been limited--freeing only slaves within Confederate states… |
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