The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

He recognized that he had put his faith in men and institutions over the higher power of destiny. What Douglass, a devout man, believed was the hand of god. He was a genius and a moral giant in 1857 ...

part of the Gateway Arch National Park and the location of the well-known 1857 Dred Scott decision, were revealed to the media Wednesday. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a landmark decision ...

Sandford decision of 1857. Dred Scott? Are you kidding me? Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. It’s so bad, I wish we called it something else ...

The failure of the United States Supreme Court to do its job. 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 ...