With dread scott, d. John sandford and you all read chief Justice Roger tawnys opinion in dred scotts case. And you have read that opinion, and its notorious in American History, right . For the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. And so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right . It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. And its often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History. To go to the Supreme Court. The only, almost uniformly, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. All of them challenging the notion of slav
Sandford and you all read chief Justice Roger tawnys opinion in dred scotts case. And you have read that opinion, and its notorious in American History, right . For the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. And so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right . It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. And its often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History. To go to the Supreme Court. The only, almost uniformly, presentedup are, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. All of them challenging the notion of slavery under
Part in a conversation on bipartisanship, politics and public part to see. Wake Forest University and wins them sale and North Carolina is the host of this event. Good evening and welcome to all of you and welcome to senators burr and senator warner. Senators, both of you have had very long careers in Public Service. I know that you were in the house in 1994 and senator warner, 1989 worked with doug wild or before becoming governor yourself of virginia. What inspired your career in Public Service . What would you say to young people today who would like to pursue a career in Public Service . laughs i like to think that i was i actually am a little bit older than richard laughs he colors his hair. Not anymore. At least i have here i like to think i was old enough to get touched by the idealism of the sixties, not old enough to be jaded by it. I have grown up in the midwest in indiana, illinois, connecticut and worked for the same company for 35 years. And i was the first my family to gr
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Suits, suits brought by employees, families, and how they posed a challenge to the constitution and under the constitution, how they posed a challenge to american slavery. Most of us are familiar with dred scott, and you already chief Justice Roger tommys majority opinion in the dred scott case. You read that opinion and it is notorious in American History for the blatant racism in it, for the sanction to human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship. And denying blacks even as persons under the constitution. Dred scott was one type of freedom suit. It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. It is often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History to go to the Supreme Court, the only, uniformly presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in ameri