Dred Scott V. Sandford Case

Hi my names, Brianna jones and I'm going to be

talking about the dress scott vs.

Stanford case of 18 57.

So basically a little behind the scenes and background of

the case is it was Harriet and Read scott.

They were part of the scott family and originally they

were part of the blow family, the original owners and

eventually they were sold to the family of Sanford.

Originally it was the husband of Irene stanford, but it

wasn't till the marriage between Sanford that and then being

sold into the Sanford family that this continued on and

the case has started.

So basically In April 1846, Dread and Harriet Scott sued

for their freedom against Irene Stanford and with this case,

their first trial occurred on June 30 1847.

And with this case, it was kind of difficult for

them to have a persuasive case and have someone to

back them up as they were both illiterate because they

were slaves back then were able to learn to read

or to write.

However, they did have their past understood blow family who

were in a more free state who wanted to support

abolition and want to support their freedom.

However, since they were owned by the Stand for family,

they're able to do that.

Um but since this was an impossibility for them to

learn how to read and write with in terms of

their case ending, they were obviously ruled against by the

court. But also this costs the judge to reschedule a

trial based off of this technicality.

Additionally, with the retrial, it was in general, 1850s, so

three years later and the freedom was declared for the

Scots. But Irene appealed obviously through the Missouri Supreme Court.

So they started off in the smaller court and we're

able to go up into the mysterious Supreme Court do

Tyrion filing appeal, which basically combined the Harriet and dread

cases in 18 52 making it rather than just the

dread scott versus case.

Originally, it was more separate cases, but it combines this

red scott vs.

Stanford case.

Additionally, a lot of other information was that after the

appeals, dread scott did file a lawsuit in november of

18 53 to the United States Circuit Court for District

of Missouri.

This was higher up from the Missouri Supreme Court and

as they were going on, they were continuing seriously up

to get to the Supreme Court And by May 1854,

the Federal Court decided here the case and ruled in

favor of Irene, so they weren't granted their freedom.

However, in December of 1850 for Sky was able to

repeal to the actual United States Supreme Court and this

hearing started in February 11 1856, going into it all

waiting to 1857.

Mhm. Now, additionally, to go along with this, we have

the decision to hear it.

So with this case, the main reason that it was

her in the first place was because of the chief

chief justice at the time, who actually made the final

decision on the dread scott case, which is roger Tanny

Roger Taney was born to a southern artress, cassie, And

he was appointed the 5th Chief Justice ever at that

time. And in addition to this, he was responsible for

creating the 5th amendment, which basically protected the rights of

slave owners, then be able to list them as property.

Additionally, his decision to hear the case was due to

the Missouri compromise.

What's going on at the time with the Missouri compromise.

This between making territories either Free State or Slave States

based up what their needs were and what the citizens

want it and how it would be equal parts free

and slave states.

So addition to this, he was also important as Congress

had no say on the sprite slavery at the time.

It was mostly based off the Supreme Court to make

this decision.

However, Congress did have their input about the Wisconsin territory.

In addition to tanny being making the final decision on

the dress clock case.

He also became known for writing the Of being part

of the 14th Amendment.

As his decision for the case was all people back

from the scent free, a slave for not United States

citizens and therefore had no right to use sue in

federal court.

But they also reviled him later on as his role

in case.

He decided to make them free and go against the

statement. But additionally, as I mentioned for the 14th Amendment,

he was trusting in Abraham Lincoln for President at the

time of the election of 1860 And eventually he became

known as the Great Emancipator create the Emancipation Proclamation which

led to the 14th Amendment.

Yeah, along with this, the decisions for the court, like

I mentioned was that red scott was gifted his freedom,

but this was due to in May 26 of 18

57. His original owner, Taylor blow was able to buy

him from Irene's family.

As during the time Irene decided to married her second

husband, Calvin Chaffee and Calvin Chaffee was known as an

abolitionist U.

S. Congressman as he didn't want this to look bad

on him.

He decided to swim back to the blow family as

he knew that taylor blow would entrust them with their

freedom. Additionally, during this time, Supreme Court was done with

the Congress and the ruling of slavery in the territories.

This was based on the Missouri compromise, as I said,

and the decision with the Wisconsin territory and rather should

be free or slave.

But during this time it would say that slavery should

have not even been granted to this territory, so they

originally side and make it slave, but it was actually

supposed to be free in terms of the territories.

In addition to this, there is a priest per sentence

after there's actually no sort of overturned case unless you

count the slaughterhouse case, which is basically reiterated the 14th

Amendment that happened.

But with the dread scott for the stanford case, this

basically inspired the 14th Amendment post Silver War and post

patient proclamation.

So basically the 14th minute reiterated, uh they were free

and that they were citizens and protecting the United States.

Along with this, this was after the war, the civil

war and this war is based off of the dread

scott case and how slaves recently fighting for freedom and

become Friedman.

And in addition to this, it was also inspiring acts

of abolition throughout the country.

So finally, I want to talk about the modern day

impact that this case has had.

So with this case obviously inspired the 14th amendment and

the emancipation proclamation which gave slaves their freedom.

But throughout history we've had fights for civil rights for

african americans.

We have been able to cause the civil rights movement

in the, in the 19 sixties.

And we also worked after 18 68 with the 14th

Amendment to build up with the 15th Amendment in the

16th Amendment, which basically gave us more riots, dealt with

the Jim Crow laws and any other laws of sharecropping

that held freed slaves back and kind of put them

back into slavery.

In addition to this, we also had more urban movements,

basically, a bunch of them were moving to the north

and causing this urban movement and causing a whole jazz

creation in their own kind of culture for african americans.

In addition to this, as caused a lot of slaves

to fight for freedom back in the 1860s and has

honestly inspired a bunch of people in modern days, just

keep fighting for freedom, fighting for the rights, especially in

terms of police brutality that's going on and the Black

Lives Matter movement that is occurring right now.

So thank you so much for listening and that was

the dread Scott Case vs the Sanford case of 1857.

Thank you so much.

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