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Film, Video Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery

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Title

  • Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery

Summary

  • In his "House Divided" speech, Abraham Lincoln accused Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Senator Stephen Douglas of a conspiracy to perpetuate slavery in the United States. According to Lincoln, this conspiracy took form in the 1857 Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which excluded African Americans from U.S. citizenship. Kluge Fellow Rachel Shelden re-examines Lincoln's conspiracy charge in the context of how the federal political system -- and particularly the Supreme Court -- operated in the mid-19th century.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-02-18.

Headings

  • -  Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott v. Sandford, slavery, African Americans, conspiracy charge, supreme court
  • -  Biography, History

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Rachel Shelden.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-02-18.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690026

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690026/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2016) Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690026/.

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -02-18, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690026/>.