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Book/Printed MaterialThe Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney Decision in the case of the slave, Dred Scott, vs. John F. A. Sandford, his master. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus) - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke - Van Evrie, John H.
- Date: 1860
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Book/Printed MaterialA review of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. LAC brd 2019-04-29 no edits (1 card) Copy 2 Gift of Mrs. Wallace H. White. June 21, 1955. LAC brd 2019-04-29- Contributor: Kentucky Lawyer
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialReport of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. December term, 1856 "This case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action of trespass vi et armis instituted in the Circuit court by Scott against Sandford."--p. [3]. The points considered in the Supreme court were: Negro citizenship, jurisdiction of the Circuit court and the Missouri compromise act. Lieber Collection copy:…- Contributor: John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Supreme Court - Sanford, John F. A.
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialA legal review of the case of Dred Scott, as decided by the Supreme Court of the United States "From the Law reporter for June, 1857." Written by Horace Gray and John Lowell. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Lowell, John - Gray, Horace
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialHistorical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, …
Examination of the Dred Scott case by Thomas H. Benton Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form.- Contributor: Benton, Thomas Hart
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialAn examination of the case of Dred Scott against Sandford, in the Supreme Court of the United States, and a full and fair exposition of the decision of the Court, and of … Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and in microfilm. LAC brd 2019-04-29 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Geneva Literary and Scientific Association (Geneva, N.Y.) - Foot, Samuel A. (Samuel Alfred) - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1859
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Book/Printed MaterialThe case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis, and abstracts of the opinions of the other judges; with an … Also available on microfilm (Microfilm 21984), and in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC brd 2019-04-29 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Scott, Dred - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Sanford, John F. A.
- Date: 1860
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CollectionSlavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860 This collection consists of 105 library books and manuscripts, totalling approximately 8,700 pages drawn principally from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with a few from the General Collections. The selection was guided in large part by the entries in Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases by Paul Finkelman (Washington,…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. Law Library
- Date: 2002
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Book/Printed MaterialReport of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859 : together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court "The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the Circuit Court of the United States ... These prisoners have been included in two indictments of the ten prisoners, first tried, were as follows:…- Contributor: Bates, R. T. - United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - Woodruff, J.
- Date: 1859
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Book/Printed MaterialReport of the Lemmon slave case : containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges
People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case Case presented for argument in the New York Court of Appeals on January 24, 1860. cf. p. 15. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: New York (State). Court of Appeals - New York (State) - Lemmon, Jonathan - Napoleon, Louis
- Date: 1860
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Periodical[Records and briefs of the United States Supreme Court]
Records and briefs | Supreme Court records and briefs | US Supreme Court records and briefs | U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs Irregular Began in 1832? Also known as: Records and briefs; Supreme Court records and briefs; and: U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. Slip opinions bound in with records and briefs. Description based on: Vol. 484. SERBIB/SERLOC merged record- Contributor: United States. Supreme Court
- Date: 1832
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Web PageRelated Resources Library of Congress Web Sites African-American History and Culture The African-American Mosaic The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 Afro-American Genealogical Research An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of…
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue The arrest of John, a fugitive slave of John G. Bacon of Kentucky, residing in Oberlin, Ohio, and his release from the hands of the officers by a number of citizens. A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. Also available in digital form on the Library…- Contributor: Plumb, Ralph - Shipherd, Jacob R. (Jacob Rudd) - Peck, Henry E. (Henry Everard)
- Date: 1859
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