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... court , Dred Scott won , but Mrs. Emerson appealed to the State Supreme Court which reversed the judgment on the ground that having returned to Missouri voluntarily the Negro resumed his status as slave under the laws of that State ...
... court , Dred Scott won , but Mrs. Emerson appealed to the State Supreme Court which reversed the judgment on the ground that having returned to Missouri voluntarily the Negro resumed his status as slave under the laws of that State ...
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... Courts of that State . Scott was a slave because the Supreme Court of Missouri had decided that he was a slave . The judgment of the lower Court should therefore be affirmed . The duty thus laid on the United States Supreme Court was an ...
... Courts of that State . Scott was a slave because the Supreme Court of Missouri had decided that he was a slave . The judgment of the lower Court should therefore be affirmed . The duty thus laid on the United States Supreme Court was an ...
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... court to receive his sentence . The Judge asked him whether he had anything to say , why sentence should not be pronounced upon him . John Brown got slowly to his feet , put his hands on the table before him , and leaned slightly for ...
... court to receive his sentence . The Judge asked him whether he had anything to say , why sentence should not be pronounced upon him . John Brown got slowly to his feet , put his hands on the table before him , and leaned slightly for ...
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The Revolutionary Tradition | 13 |
A New England Boyhood | 18 |
Harvard Days | 26 |
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