The Dred Scott case

Emerson's brother, John F. A. Sanford of New York bought Scott for the purpose of bringing a case in federal court which, according to the Constitution, had the power to decide cases between citizens of different states (Mullane 132-133). However, in 1856, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of the Supreme Court delayed the case for a year to avoid giving a ruling in a presidential election year. The outcome of the eventual trial showed a deep division surrounding the issue of slavery, but the prevailing opinion was that of Chief Justice Taney who argued that Scott did not gain his freedom just by traveling into free territory, and that he co

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such a Government which declared him to be an inferior an degraded being was to denounce and repudiate it, and to do what they could by all proper means to bring it into contempt. Purvis' ideas were echoed by C. L. Redmond of Salem, Mass., who declared that for colored people to persist in claiming citizenship under the United States Constitution after this would be mean-spirited and craven (Mullane 138). He said that colored people owed no allegiance to a country that treated them like dogs and ground them under its heels. Redmond said that the time for patriotism was gone, that he was no longer proud that the first blood spilled in the American Revolution was that of a colored man, Attucks, and that he was no longer proud that his grandfather fought in th revolutionary war. He now believed the liberty purchased by the blood of colored men was now used to enslave and degrade them, and he loathed a government that could perpetrate such outrages on its people. He denounced the American Union in strong terms. The resolutions of Purvis and Remond were passed. Women were also involved in the struggle for freedom of the American slaves. Sojourner Truth is one of the best known (Mullane 184-185). Truth was a strong proponen
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