See, that’s why I put you on the ping list without the formality of asking you first. Thanks for that summary. I have a book on the Dred Scott case that begins with a history of slavery in the U.S. I will alert the group if it has tidbits you skipped over in your post.
Thanks Homer. I’m sure you will find many tidbits. One of the challenges of putting a class together is deciding what to leave out. You can’t cover everything. I tried to wrap that up in such a way where I didn’t get into things I knew we would cover later, like Dred Scott, Congressional fallout from Bleeding Kansas, and other things. Glad I could take a bit of time to write up this simple background for you. Time never seems to be a commodity anymore.