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A report 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. / by Benjamin C. Howard ...

Title
A report 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. / by Benjamin C. Howard ...
Author
United States. Supreme Court
Publication
New York : Gryphon Editions, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Scott, Dred, 1809-1858
  • Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 1807-1857
  • Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew), 1791-1872
  • Dershowitz, Alan M.
Description
7 p. l., p. [393]-633; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Notable trials library
Uniform Title
Notable trials library
Subject
  • Scott, Dred, 1809-1858
  • African Americans
  • Citizenship
  • Missouri compromise
  • Black or African American
Note
  • Reprint. [from the Reports of the U.S. Supreme Court] --New York:D. Appleton & Co., 1857.
  • "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. 396.
  • The points brought into question in the Supreme Court were Negro citizenship and the jurisdiction of the Circuit court. The constitutionality of the Missouri compromise act was also considered.
  • New introduction (unpaged) by Alan M. Dershowitz.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
  • 32406901
  • SCSB-10274128
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library