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Eric Foner -Justice Denied, Pt 2
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:30:26
Publish Date: 2022-02-03 08:01:49
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In this documentary, we look in-depth at the most controversial ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court—the Dred Scott case. In that decision, the Chief Justice ruled that black people have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Shortly afterward, a fellow justice resigned in disgust from the Supreme Court. We hear the whole amazing saga in a lengthy dialogue with Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of history at Columbia University. We examine how these cases aggravated national tensions before the Civil War, stirred up abolitionist sentiment and harmed the legitimacy of the courts.
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