When is a Free Man Free? The Dred Scott Decision
Looks a the U.S. Supreme Court decision announced on March 6, 1857, and how it fuled the bitter sectional controversy over slavery.
www.worldfreeinternet.net/news/nws19.htm
African American History: Dred Scott
History of the legal case of a black slave who claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in a free state.
www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html