What are u taking about? Scott won a jury verdict in St. Louis, Mo. Based on 28 years of Missouri precedents. The newly elected state supreme court -- dominated by two fiercely proslavery justices reversed that verdict. The case was then taken to the US circuit court where the Virginia born slaveholding federal judge charged the jury to find against Scott. The US Supreme Court with 5 slaveholders upheld that result. And that court met in DC, where slavery was legal. So, Mr Adams, what are you talking about when you say the case was in a free state?
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] "The Monster of Monticello"
You need to cite Dred Scott. It was a court in a non slave area that held
for Scott's owner, not some nasty slave holding state.
JPADAMS
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As you are undoubtedly aware, Dred Scott was the law of the land (United
States) at that point and the Fugitive Slave Law in full effect. Slaves
were chattel property and from a legal standpoint returning them to their
owners was little more than returning a stray horse or cow to its owner, and
in fact required under the statute of federal marshal's.
I think some may need to take a couple PC neutralizing pills when discussing
slavery during this period in our history to try to get to some level of
objectivity.
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:42:16 +0000
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> Perhaps you should read David G. Smith, "Race and Retaliation: The Capture
of African Americans During the Gettysburg Campaign" in Peter Wallenstein
and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, eds., Virginia's Civil War. There is written
evidence that Confederate commanders were fully aware of what the army was
doing in this regard.
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> Gregg Kimball
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> His troops individually may have done any number of things within the
context of war, but what does that have to do with Lee?
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> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:07:26 -0800
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> > I do not believe he freed all his slaves, but i am not where i can
> > check it and give u a citation. His troops hinted fugitive slaves
> > and free blacks in PA on their way to Gettysburg
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