The nine justices of the Supreme Court of 1856 certainly had biases regarding slavery. Seven had been appointed by pro-slavery presidents from the South, and of these, five were from slave-holding ...

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Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...