… about Justice Curtis’ dissenting opinion in the Dred Scott decision? One of the most famous, or perhaps I should say infamous, and controversial decisions of the United States Supreme Court was the Dred Scott decision of 1857. Dred Scott, a black slave, “who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free …
… that President John Quincy Adams believed that the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were also for People of African descent? Implicit in the often heard, and erroneous statement, that the U. S. Constitution made a Black Person three-fifths of a person is the idea that the high sounding ideals …
This is not a new but a repost of this blog that was launched a little more than a year ago. Since I have been in hiatus for a while and have heard repetition of the assertion that the U. S. Constitution counted Black People as two-thirds of a person, I thought it good to …
Why Didn't They Tell You? 