ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY | |
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On March 6, 1857, the US Supreme Court issues the Dred Scott decision, which affirms the right of slave owners to take enslaved people into the West, essentially affirming slavery in the Western territories. Dred Scott was an enslaved man who sued his owner for his freedom after he was taken to the free state of Illinois. The nation’s highest court ruled that all people of African ancestry, both slaves and free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. |
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