Honestly Rose, I learned more about Dred Scott from this history review than I did in my high school American History class! Thanks so much for the research and time you put into it. On another note, Graphic will be on sale at five out of five venues when Sr. Helen is here. Doing all we can to sell the daylights out of that fabulous six-year project of yours! I so wish you could hear all the comments coming my way.
Thanks, Sherry. I would have liked to spend more time on this one, because there were so many fascinating interconnections and so many details of the workings of white supremacy I had to omit.
So very thankful to you for all the groundwork you’ve laid for Helen’s visit there. I hope it’s a blast and that da nun treats you right!
That was a fantastic summary, Rose. Most non-historians are unaware of the legal battles pursued by enslaved people and their advocates. It is reminiscent of the failures in the criminal "justice" system experienced and described by Calvin and Sophie in their book. Of course, I am eagerly awaiting your appearance at the book festival!
Thank you for the history lesson. This is the kind of information that the idiotic revisionists want to abolish. We need to see the bad decisions that have been made in the past, as well as the good ones, so that we all can learn from these events. We are most unfortunately living in an era of irrational people who have great political power. We all need to be smarter about what happened in the past so that we can be better now.
This is a lot more information about Dred Scott than we were taught in history class and in law school. What great research you have done into the background and post-court events of his life. The “Dred Scott” [sorry, I don’t know there’s a way to do underscoring or italics on my iPad] is unquestionably one of the most horrible decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court- which is saying something, given how many horrible decisions it has rendered since its inception.
Thanks, Lillie. The more I started digging into the case, the more pathways I found to follow. I would have liked more time to write, especially to explore the white supremacist attitudes on which the case rested.
Honestly Rose, I learned more about Dred Scott from this history review than I did in my high school American History class! Thanks so much for the research and time you put into it. On another note, Graphic will be on sale at five out of five venues when Sr. Helen is here. Doing all we can to sell the daylights out of that fabulous six-year project of yours! I so wish you could hear all the comments coming my way.
Thanks, Sherry. I would have liked to spend more time on this one, because there were so many fascinating interconnections and so many details of the workings of white supremacy I had to omit.
So very thankful to you for all the groundwork you’ve laid for Helen’s visit there. I hope it’s a blast and that da nun treats you right!
That was a fantastic summary, Rose. Most non-historians are unaware of the legal battles pursued by enslaved people and their advocates. It is reminiscent of the failures in the criminal "justice" system experienced and described by Calvin and Sophie in their book. Of course, I am eagerly awaiting your appearance at the book festival!
Yes Jane, it’s sad how many of the same battles play out today. And the intertwining of politics and the courts, too, plays out now as it did then.
Thank you for the history lesson. This is the kind of information that the idiotic revisionists want to abolish. We need to see the bad decisions that have been made in the past, as well as the good ones, so that we all can learn from these events. We are most unfortunately living in an era of irrational people who have great political power. We all need to be smarter about what happened in the past so that we can be better now.
I agree entirely, Ann. Thanks.
This is a lot more information about Dred Scott than we were taught in history class and in law school. What great research you have done into the background and post-court events of his life. The “Dred Scott” [sorry, I don’t know there’s a way to do underscoring or italics on my iPad] is unquestionably one of the most horrible decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court- which is saying something, given how many horrible decisions it has rendered since its inception.
Thanks, Lillie. The more I started digging into the case, the more pathways I found to follow. I would have liked more time to write, especially to explore the white supremacist attitudes on which the case rested.
Thank you for this story and explanation!
Thanks Rose,
As informative as ever. Interesting to read the historical references. It certainly provided context.
Tess