CSPAN3 Lectures In History Slaves Suing For Their Freedom July 13, 2024
Suits, suits brought by employees, families, and how they posed a challenge to the constitution and under the constitution, how they posed a challenge to american slavery. Most of us are familiar with dred scott, and you already chief Justice Roger tommys majority opinion in the dred scott case. You read that opinion and it is notorious in American History for the blatant racism in it, for the sanction to human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship. And denying blacks even as persons under the constitution. Dred scott was one type of freedom suit. It was based on h...