 | Milton Meltzer - 2005 - 140 Seiten
...of slavery. In 1857 the Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision, holding that blacks "were so far inferior that they had no rights, which the white man was bound to respect." In 1859, John Brown, with a band of twenty-one men, attacked the federal arsenal... | |
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - 2006 - 180 Seiten
...in the definition of "the people." The prevailing view at that time was that African Americans were "so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." See Derrick A. Bell Jr., Race, Racism and American Law (Boston: Little, Brown... | |
 | Alice Travis - 2007 - 237 Seiten
...not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people," ...They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether...lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit... The dissenting opinion of Justice Curtis more accurately reflected Federalist thought offered in intellectual... | |
 | Slason Thompson - 2007 - 244 Seiten
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 | Joseph Booth - 2007 - 98 Seiten
...explained that at the writing of the US Constitution: They [blacks] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether...lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit... This opinion was at the time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. See Don... | |
 | Michael T. Martin, Marilyn Yaquinto - 2007 - 732 Seiten
...people of African descent within the body politic. Africans "had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." Furthermore, "This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized... | |
 | Aviva Chomsky - 2007 - 268 Seiten
...rights and privileges to all citizens. Blacks, Taney explained, had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether...inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect . . . This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion... | |
 | Joseph F. Healey, Eileen O'Brien - 2007 - 505 Seiten
...American, the white judges viewed black Americans not as a nation to be negotiated with, but rather as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit...inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."8 Whites' racist views of indigenous societies often allowed for more independence,... | |
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... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. 
