{"id":4480,"date":"2023-04-29T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:25:15","slug":"taney-roger-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/taney-roger-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Taney, Roger B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roger B. Taney<\/strong> (1777-1864) was the chief justice of the US Supreme Court and author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1857-dred-scott-decision\/\"><em>Dred Scott\u00a0<\/em>ruling<\/a> in 1857, which argued that African Americans could not be US citizens and that slavery was a nationally protected institution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/reconsidering-the-underground-railroad-in-canada-west-barker\/\">Barker<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/proslavery-politician\/\">Proslavery Politician<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger B. Taney (1777-1864) was the chief justice of the US Supreme Court and author of the Dred Scott\u00a0ruling in 1857, which argued that African Americans could not be US citizens and that slavery was a nationally protected institution. ESSAYS: Barker \/\/ Sinha ROLES: Proslavery Politician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proslavery-politician"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}