Dred Scott V Sanford & Plessy V Ferguson
Slavery was a horrific drawback and set a bad reputation for the U.S. Many people didn’t receive their full rights until long after african americans were deemed free and equal to white mankind. Have you ever wondered how the U.S. became the free country it is today? Where any man or women can live with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well unfortunately the U.S. wasn't always like this. For instance, the Dred Scott VS Sanford supreme court case and the Plessy VS Ferguson case. These cases were important in making this country free for all races as it is now. Without such cases to sort out right/wrongdoings who would know where we would be today.
In 1846, Dred Scott, a slave, sued in a Missouri court for his freedom from his master. Scott argued that …show more content…
For these reasons plessy argued is freedom since he was in fact seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, and had the appearance of a white man.
In Dreds case, northern antislavery justices John McLean of Ohio and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts agreed with scott, arguing that he should be freed under the Missouri Compromise since he had traveled north of the 36°30′ line. Where freedom had been issued to all races. Showing, that he had no freedom since he came from a slave state and this was constitutional.
In regards to Plessy, The Separate Car Act did not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, according to Brown (Associate Justice that rejected Plessy’s arguments), because it did not reestablish slavery or constitute a “badge” of slavery. The court ruled that “such equality extended only so far as political and civil rights.” Under this argument the law was
Slavery was a horrific drawback and set a bad reputation for the U.S. Many people didn’t receive their full rights until long after african americans were deemed free and equal to white mankind. Have you ever wondered how the U.S. became the free country it is today? Where any man or women can live with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well unfortunately the U.S. wasn't always like this. For instance, the Dred Scott VS Sanford supreme court case and the Plessy VS Ferguson case. These cases were important in making this country free for all races as it is now. Without such cases to sort out right/wrongdoings who would know where we would be today.
In 1846, Dred Scott, a slave, sued in a Missouri court for his freedom from his master. Scott argued that …show more content…
For these reasons plessy argued is freedom since he was in fact seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, and had the appearance of a white man.
In Dreds case, northern antislavery justices John McLean of Ohio and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts agreed with scott, arguing that he should be freed under the Missouri Compromise since he had traveled north of the 36°30′ line. Where freedom had been issued to all races. Showing, that he had no freedom since he came from a slave state and this was constitutional.
In regards to Plessy, The Separate Car Act did not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, according to Brown (Associate Justice that rejected Plessy’s arguments), because it did not reestablish slavery or constitute a “badge” of slavery. The court ruled that “such equality extended only so far as political and civil rights.” Under this argument the law was