Don E. Fehrenbacher
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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Don E. Fehrenbacher
This masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure—the case referred to as “the most frequently overturned decision in history.”
On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court’s decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. The decision did much more than resolve the fate of an elderly black man and his family; Dred Scott v.…
