The Dred Scott Decision: Crash Course Black American History #16

“n this video, we’ll learn about the US Supreme Court decision in Scott vs Sanford, handed down in 1857. The case ultimately rejected the idea that Black people could be citizens of the United States, and this helped entrench the institution of slavery, denied a host of rights to a huge number of people (both enslaved and free), and increased the tensions between abolitionists and enslavers.

Clint’s book, How the Word is Passed is available now! https://bookshop.org/books/how-the-word-is-passed-a-reckoning-with-the-history-of-slavery-across-america/9780316492935

VIDEO SOURCES
https://www.britannica.com/event/Missouri-Compromise
Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Oxford University Press, 1978).
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465793/ice-a-whistleblower-and-forced-sterilization

Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself

The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States – https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/8A0AE7EACD11F278C1256DD6004860EA/$file/Fredrick.pdf
THIND V. UNITED STATES​ (1923)