Dred Scott Case

<Tab/>In what some call the most infamous case in its history, the Supreme Court case of Scott v Sandford produced one of the most controversial and most heavily debated decisions ever. The conditions of the case seem to be simple to understand, yet the logistics of it make the case notorious. Another reason the case was so significant was because it came in the wake of Bleeding Kansas and only 3 …

…that freedom taken away, and then told that they were not citizens is utterly outrageous. The decision proved to tell all African Americans that they had no future in America, a proclamation that in itself is almost unfathomably wrong. Dred Scott v. Sandford is one of the most iniquitous and contentious Supreme Court cases of all time and its issues would not be settled until a Civil War would be fought in 1860 and concluded in 1865.