Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dred Scott Decision: Opinion of Chief Justice Taney, With an Introduction by Dr. J. H. Van Evrie; Also, an Appendix, Containing an Essay on the Natural History of the Prognathous Race of Mankind
This Opinion of Chief Justice Taney and those of his eminent colleagues of the Supreme Court of the Republic, is an epoch in our civil history, which is doubtless destined in all future time to be a landmark in American civilization.
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