CSPAN3 Supreme Court Justices Pre-Civil War Slavery February 26, 2018
Mr. Ferriero for most people long out of school thinking back on u. S. History dredges up memories of lessons on the revolutionary war, the establishment of the constitution, and the war of 1812, and then jumps to the beginnings of the civil war. The in between times may be indistinct but they saw the emergence of an increasingly divided nation. Throughout this time, the federal government, time and time again, had to deal with the questions of slavery and its expansion. Among the the voluminous records of the federal courts in the National Archives, are hundreds of freedom suits, cases brough...