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Apr

08

Roger B. Taney's home

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Places to Visit Themes: Carlisle & Dickinson

The Historical Society of Frederick County has converted the home of Roger Brooke Taney, the Supreme Court Chief Justice who issued the Dred Scott ruling, into an historical site which includes his house, detached kitchen, root cellar, smoke house, and slave quarters. Guided tours are available, and special events are held at the home.

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10

Apr

08

Dred Scott gets another Chance at Freedom

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Recent News Themes: Laws & Litigation, Slavery & Abolition

Harvard Law School has hosted a retrial of the Dred Scott case, presided over by a Current US Supreme Court Justice and nine U.S. appeals court judges, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of this infamous case. Lawyers and academics argued on both sides of the case. So, how did Scott fair with this long delayed appeal?

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10

Apr

08

If you're looking for a place to visit…

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Places to Visit Themes: Laws & Litigation

For anyone looking for an educational field trip or just for a personally enriching day trip, St. Louis’s Old Courthouse could be interesting. Not only is this the place where Dred Scott first sued for his freedom, it is also the site of a women’s suffrage case as well. Two of the court rooms have been restored to look much as they did in the 1870s and there is a museum dedicated St. Louis history.

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1

Apr

08

Landmark Cases

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), Lesson Plans Themes: Laws & Litigation

Landmark Cases has an easy to follow diagram of the steps which the Dred Scott case took to reach the Supreme Court. Activities to help explain the case are included.

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1

Apr

08

Obama-Mania and Negro-Mania

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861), General Opinion

In this article, an African American historian of mental illness argues that the recent rhetoric which describes Barak Obama’s followers as being caught up in Obama-mania is connected to racist ideas from the civil war era that slaves were more inclined to mental insanity than whites. The author links this idea to the notion that blacks were not seen as able to make moral judgments, because they were morally insane, and states that this belief was reflected in the Dred Scott finding. He also discusses how Negro-Mania, which was a medical term invented to describe a white who is obsessed with the slavery question and was used to caste doubts on the sanity of abolitionists, is linked to the current phrase Obama-Mania.

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1

Apr

08

PBS Website about Dred Scott

Posted by   Published in Antebellum (1840-1861) Themes: Laws & Litigation, Slavery & Abolition

Here is a link to the web site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html.

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31

Mar

08

Check out this site –PrimaryResearch.org

Posted by Matthew Pinsker  Published in Antebellum (1840-1861)

You have to see the incredible work done by Dean Eastman and other teachers and students from Beverly High School in Massachusetts on the www.primaryresearch.org website. In particular, check out the section entitled, “African-Americans in Antebellum Boston,” (www.primaryresearch.org/bh). They have pulled together an amazing amount of primary resource material, including page images and tables relating to the Boston Vigilance Committee records which was the area’s principal Underground Railroad network. See especially the account books of Treasurer Francis Jackson –amazing! All of this material is filed under Records of Voluntary Associations. There’s also lots more including GIS maps, census records, full-text documents, legislative reports and all kinds of tools for researching the black community in nineteenth-century Massachusetts, especially around Boston. Highly recommended!

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