The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children, held as slaves by the defendant [Sanford], in the State of Missouri; and he brought this action in the Circuit Court of the United ...

In a sparsely attended event on March 25 in Morris Library, Catherine Davis, a longtime anti-abortion activist and founder of ...

“A child born here of alien parentage becomes ... and stated that all people born in the US are citizens. The 1857 Dred Scott ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

After the Civil War, a hard-won new vision of our Constitution emerged in rebuke of Dred Scott: all people born ... citizenship would apply to the children of new immigrants from Asia and Europe ...