Talk:Dred Scott

message: The source - Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877, New York: Hill and Wang, 1999, 7th printing, p. 82 - doesn't seem to line up with the statements being made. In particular, there is an aside made here about the meaning of the "3/5 of a person" claim from the constitution that I believe to be wholly incorrect: "Contrary to popular belief, slaves were not counted as 3/5ths of a person for purposes of congressional representation." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/5_Compromise  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.124.20.254 (talk) 18:22, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Brian. Please sign with four tildes after your name. You may be thinking of this (see Justice Scalia here), or perhaps President Bush was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_vs._Sandford#Later_references 155.213.224.59 (talk) 15:58, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article has some grammatical errors and lack of information. If you compare this article to Dred Scott v. Sandford, you would probably consider redirecting. Much is very repetitive from the said article. I also have to bring up the spelling and grammatical errors that hinder understanding. This might be a case of possible vandalism. Also, the lack of images is rather disconcerting.
Bibliomaniac15 01:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I copyedited this article but there remains one internal contradiction as follows:
In the days of Dred Scott, a slave's birth was usually not recorded. Therefore, it was up to guesswork. Most slaves gave their birthday as a season. Refer to Frederick Dougalass' autobiography.
Bibliomaniac15 21:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: date/year of birth?

message: The image of the painted portrait of Scott we have lacks any information on source, artist, or date. If anyone has any info, please add it. -- Infrogmation 14:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was able to track down some info and added it to image page. If anyone can find a good usable version of the contemporary photo (is only one known?) of Scott, uploading it to the Commons would be nifty. -- Infrogmation 15:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Portrait

message: Someone linked to the page of a porn actor who apparently uses the name of the historical Dred Scott to further his career. There is no evidence in that article that the porn star is using anything but a fake name. There is no biographical material in that article. And, it looks very much like that article is free advertising for a commercial product. It contains no verifiable biographical material. I have therefore discontinued the link and placed a note in the porn actor's Talk page. Skywriter 21:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Porn actor use of Dred Scott name for goal of free advertising

message: I didn't realize the Missouri Compromise included denial of gay rights.Dale662 (talk) 21:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  As long as they're not gay? 

message: Did I miss something here?
"After the ruling, with Sanford in an insane asylum, Scott was returned as property to Irene Emerson."
Unless I wasn't paying attention, we get Sanford (shouldn't that be SanDford?) by the snap of fingers in… an insane asylum (!) with no more preparation than if he had gone to the local library or the corner grocery store. Shouldn't we be told what put the man in those dire straits (the Supreme Court case or something unrelated like a family disease?)? Also, was it temporary or for the rest of his life, did he go of his own free will, was he committed, was he taken kicking and screaming, what? We may not need two paragraphs on this (the other option would be to take the phrase out entirely), but a sentence or two would do no harm. Asteriks (talk) 09:21, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Insane Asylum?! 

message: From the article:
"Any person descended from black Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the Declaration of Independence."
This seems wrong. Wasn't it the Constitution that was at issue, not the Declaration of Independence? Michael 01:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declaration of Independence or Constitution? 

message: The three paragraphs contained in the two sections 'Overview' and 'Life' are clearly the wrong way about. The third should be first, and the first should be third. 86.148.132.13 (talk) 18:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of sequence 

message: 'The Emersons and Scotts returned to Missouri in 1842...'  -  returned from where?
And what was Scott actually doing in Wisconsin without his master, before being summoned South? Who fed and clothed him at this time? 86.148.132.13 (talk) 18:31, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The various travels 

message: The Danisk links does not point to the Dred Scott page but to a page about a pc game. Jan Kronsell (talk) 21:30, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Danish page is broken - it points to a wrong page 

message: Substituted at 13:50, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: This article erroneously referred to Dred Scott as an African American.  By definition, the description applies to Americans of African decent which would not include antebellum slaves. Eodcarl (talk) 22:50, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: We use what the reliable sources say and African American is consistently used by these sources. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 23:26, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  To be an African American, one does have to be an American.  African American is not synonymous with black, or of African dissent, no matter how many "reliable" sources use the term incorrectly. Eodcarl (talk) 23:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  African American 

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