Existing comment:
"War does not determine who is right -- only who is left."
View of the plinth that formerly held the statue of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864(.
Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore
Chief Justice Taney delivered the Supreme Court majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This ruling stated that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not citizens of the United States. |