Dred Scott filed his suit in 1846. It took 11 years to get a ruling. ALL THE PROCESSES OF LAW WERE FOLLOWED. In the end he was ruled a sub-human, and not only him, but all descended from black Africans. That was a novel ruling. What Judicial BOLDNESS!
Scott was freed when his owner, a widow, married an well-off abolitionist. He lived as free sub-human for 17 months before consumption got him.
Scott's widow and children survived to live long enough to have the LAW declare them human again. But that took a great blood-filled war.
The estimates of the dead from that war: 600,000.
Isn't scrupulous legal process grand?
Dred Scott filed his suit in 1846. It took 11 years to get a ruling. ALL THE PROCESSES OF LAW WERE FOLLOWED. In the end he was ruled a sub-human, and not only him, but all descended from black Africans. That was a novel ruling. What Judicial BOLDNESS!
Scott was freed when his owner, a widow, married an well-off abolitionist. He lived as free sub-human for 17 months before consumption got him.
Scott’s widow and children survived to live long enough to have the LAW declare them human again. But that took a great blood-filled war.
The estimates of the dead from that war: 600,000.
Isn’t scrupulous legal process grand?