Dred Scott Case
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...1834, Dred Scott, a black slave, personal servant...that two antislavery justices, John McLean and Benjamin...to write dissenting opinions vigorously upholding...territories, and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the courts opinion that the Missouri Compromise...unconstitutional. Three of the justices also held that a black "whose ancestors were...