Dred Scott
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Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dr
Scott c. 1857
Dred and Harriet Scott's restored quarters at Fort Snelling
The case centered on Dred and Harriet Scott (top) and their children, Eliza and Lizzie.
Dred Scott's grave in Calvary Cemetery, before its replacement by a towering monument on September 30, 2023
Roger B. Taney
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Roger Brooke Taney was an American lawyer and politician who served as the fifth chief justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864. Taney delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scot
Dred Scott
…the 36°30′ parallel, was unconstitutional because it "deprives citizens of their [slave] property without due process of law". Although Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and congressional authority by this decision, it instead aroused public outrage, deepened sectional…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, 1855–1860
Bureau of Engraving and Printing portrait of Taney as Secretary of the Treasury
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, photograph by Mathew Brady
Taney's grave in Frederick, Maryland