The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming. It's an invitation to rewrite constitutional text and history in ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856 ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his ... John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from different states. The main issues for the Supreme Court, therefore, were whether it ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children ... he is a citizen of Missouri, and the defendant a citizen of New York. The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors ...