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Book World: The enslaved families who sued for freedom in court - and won
Alison L. LaCroix, The Washington Post
Dec. 11, 2020
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation s Founding to the Civil WarYale - handout
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation s Founding to the Civil War
By William G. Thomas III
Yale. 418 pp. $35
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In 1857, the chief justice of the United States, Roger Brooke Taney, declared in his infamous (BEGIN ITAL)Dred Scott v. Sandford(END ITAL) opinion that since the nation s founding, African Americans - whether free or enslaved - had had no rights which the white man was bound to respect. Taney s opinion was not only inflammatory but based on bad history. It ignored the rights that some Black people had exercised in some states as far back as the Revolution, including the right to vote. More damning, Taney s words denied what he knew f ....

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