A Report Of The Decision Of The Supreme Court Of The Unted States And The Opinions Of The Judges

by Benjamin Howard Roger Brooke Taney Hew

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First edition

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857. First Edition. Original full calf over boards. Octavo. 4 , 393 -633, 1 , leaf of publisher ads . Dred Scott was the most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 19th century, and is its most famous decision involving slavery. In Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that African Americans could not be citizens, and that a key provision of the

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