thank u for saying enslaved people and not slaves 🙌

Imagine a whole nation of human beings at war over whether another group of human beings should be free or not, not criminals but kidnapped human beings that happen to born with more melanin, they didn't want to be there in the first place.

Wonder why I wasn't taught this in school glad my father made me read about it

My sister and i visited St. Louis two years ago, and before we had to leave we bitterly regretted not having enough time to visit the original courthouse where this case was heard and other beautiful historical buildings that we just got a glimpse of. We should have bypassed the Arch and gone right to the courthouse.

What a sad sick planet we live on

Tawney's personal beliefs were not necessarily a "stark" contrast to his position in the case. Many abolitionists didn't support equal rights for black people.

You will get very few comments on this video this makes a certain group of people very uncomfortable the truth they can't handle the truth I'm glad you're putting all this out there I'm a so-called African American

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This was very comprehensive thank you

150 yrs later the Supreme Court Still gets it wrong. Why is the court relevant??? If the court can be pressed/muscled, what's the point???

The ending had some misinformation. Native American people werent granted citizenship until after 1924

Kind of disingenuous to portray Lincoln as anti-slavery-freeing the enslaved was like pulling his teeth-even the emancipation proclamation didn't free them all, just those in states that rebelled, he literally said that if he could keep the country together without abolishing slavery that is what he would do. great video otherwise though!

Thank you for honoring my people.

You are so interesting great Report.

enslaving a people is bad, but its far worse to encounter a people who have been decimated by slavery, and instead of helping them, you kick them while they are down and exploit them.

Anyone thinking them self justified in owning another is lost in blindness of spirit!

The type of Supreme Court they have now they'd probably have the same ruling if the Dred Scott case was heard today.

Difficult watching your children and Their children still go thru racist ideals....😢 I Praise my Ancestors.🙏🏿

He died a free man!!

Fantastic info & presentation, except for the background music. (wtf)

Interesting theory you presented, the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were so concerned about saving the Union and avoiding a Nationwide conflict, the Dred Scott case being more political than ethical. Ironically (Like you stated), the ruling against Dred Scott did not spare the United States from a violent Civil War to end this terrible institution. President Buchanan like French King Louis XV (on the "Eve" of the French Revolution) , caught between a "rock and hard place". "After me, the deluge".

i love the Howdy Doody!

Judicial activism can swing both ways and is why it should not be allowed. Beyond the fact of slavery being an abomination, the decision contained very bad legal reasoning. Parts of it are nothing more than pro-slavery legislation that could not pass Congress. Those slave holding or pro slavery judges saw a chance to bypass the other two branches and have their way.

The Taney Court - 1857 Dred Scott Case NORTH Roger B. Taney Maryland Benjamin Robins Curtis Massachusetts Samuel Nelson New York John McLean Ohio Robert Cooper Grier Pennsylvania SOUTH James Moore Wayne Georgia Peter Vivian Daniel Virginia John Catron Tennessee John Archibald Campbell Alabama

The image commonly associated with Dred Scott is actually not of him but rather of his brother, Peter Blow. Peter Blow was the brother of Dred Scott's original owner, and the image is often used as a representation of the historical context surrounding the Dred Scott case. His skin color likely played a significant role in the selection as the plaintiff. He had mixed-race background (his father was the slave Master and his mother was the slave, that dynamic).. Scott was so light skinned he could pass for "white," coupled with his status as an enslaved individual who had lived in both free and slave states, made his case particularly compelling for challenging the legality of slavery in various jurisdictions. The image commonly associated with Dred Scott's wife, Harriet Scott, is not actually her but rather an unidentified woman.

The older I get, the more those slaveholders piss me off. I wish we could dig them up, reanimate them, and give them what they deserve.

Dope!

dred scott spent all those years fighting for freedom, just to get it in 1857, and his prize was a hotel porter job, and he died a year later. so many black men share similar stories. The same for all indigenous men around the world. if you are against reparations, after spending 300 million a day for the last 20 years in Afghanistan. you are evil.

Damm

Very interesting. No need for the annoying dramatic music though,

There’s no secret. This whole thing was a disgrace even to the people of the time

He as to be changing his voice

Dreadful. . .

My Mandela effect: Charles Sumners was always Charles Summer until recently. Now all of sudden everyone is saying Charles Sumners & not Summer.

Did Dred Scott had cataracts?

Mr Jones class 🤮

President Buchanan was a doughface.

BLM to God

Lincoln's Invasion of the South had nothing to do with slavery. Slavery was legal under the Constitution, laws of Congress and under SCOTUS decisions. Therefore, claiming the war was about slavery is claiming the invasion of the South is illegal and unconstitutional. The Union invasion of the South was for the control of Southern cash crops, especially COTTON. The Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) happened at the same time of the US creation and growth, especially textiles. As the US gained land (Louisiana Purchase, war with Mexico, etc.) COTTON and other southern cash crops were enriching the US Treasury. When the South seceded, all that money was now headed to the CS Treasury. With cotton reader on both sides of the Atlantic for the booming, automated textile industry, COTTON was in huge demand and the South was providing 2/3 of the world’s supply. Do any search on 1860 worldwide cotton supply, the economy of the Confederate States, textiles in the 1800s and the proof is evident. NOW, you know the "true meaning" of preserving the Union (Treasury). Even Union General Wm T Sherman knew that the war was really about controlling southern cash crops! This short telegram, from US General William Tecumseh Sherman to Abraham Lincoln, is dated December 22, 1864. “I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition and also about 25,000 bales of COTTON,” Sherman wrote.

One little question, wasn't Saline County Illinois a slave county? My understanding is that slavery was legal there mostly because work in the salt processing couldn't get white people to work there? If so, wouldn't Illinois be a slave state, as in,if a person has cancer the entire person is sick? Just asking

Nice guns.

Second, I love history

This article is 100% wrong. Taney followed the law, exactly as he was obligated to do. No social revision of the law, no social justice and no judicial activism. This is the way the law ought to work. Don't like the results, change the law.

Slavery was certainly a huge portion of the civil war bu you have oversimplified WHY the south fought. The NORTH had ribber barons who thrust bills through Congress making it unlikely for farmers especially COTTON farmers to be able to MAKE money without slavery whatever they WANTED to do about slavery, Meanwhile those same jerks stole plans from Britain allowing them to make textiles using machines that used to be made by hand in competition with Britain and France. Both of which would pay top dollar except for those bills. They forbade the south to sell to anyone else not France and not Britain. Didn't you ever wonder WHY there was a blockade against southern ports????? Meanwhile remember those mills up north? The robber barons were paying slave wages to young women from the farms in the Midwest. They recruited by going to their families and PAYING them, promising to send them additionally a monthly stipend from their wages. And promised the young ladies would be safe in their dormitory with a curfew and a night guard. All of which was true. The young ladies were barely permitted to leave the premises, food was also taken out of their wages along with charges for their board. The hours were long they sewed shirts blouses and other clothes. Families were happy to send their daughters because they were not as much help on a farm as sons and perhaps they would marry well in the city. So although not called slavery that form existed well into the 20th century in the garment district. Eventually it became new immigrants who fell pry to it long after the civil war was over. But in the south immigrants became another type of slave on farms, migrant workers we still have them today on the east coast. At least coal miners are not as bad off as in the early 1900s.

Those slave owners were heartless and so are their descendants