1 marzo 1857 anni - Dred Scott v. Sanford

Descrizione:

"Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being.
The Dred Scott Decision threatened to entirely recast the political landscape that had thus far managed to prevent civil war. The classification of slaves as mere property made the federal government’s authority to regulate the institution much more ambiguous.
Southerners renewed their challenges to the agreed-upon territorial limitations on slavery and polarization intensified"(battlefields.org).