Report of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford
Subtitle: December term, 1856
By: by Benjamin C. Howard ; from the nineteenth volume of Howard's Reports
Contributors: United States. Supreme Court
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: C. Wendell, printer
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Slavery
Other titles: Supreme Court December term, 1856; Dred Scott v. Sandford
Notes: "This case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action of trespass vi et armis instituted in the Circuit Court by Scott against Sandford."--P. [3]

The points considered in the Supreme Court were: Negro citizenship, jurisdiction of the Circuit Court and the Missouri Compromise Act.

Reproduction of the original from the Oberlin College Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

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