Dred and Harriet Scott Case

Image Gateway –The Scott Family and Dickinson

Dred Scott in 1857, age about 57, one year before his death

Teaching the Dred (and Harriet) Scott Case

“Taney added the notorious statement that will always be associated with his name. At the time of the framing of the Constitution, he declared, the Negro ‘had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.’ This was not merely historical commentary, as some defenders of the chief justice have maintained. He also held that the constitutional status of blacks had not changed since 1787.” –Don E. Fehrenbacher in Garraty, p. 86