Slavery & Abolition in the US
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Benton, Thomas Hart
Benton, Thomas Hart. Historical and Legal Examination of that part of Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857.
Benton critically examines the Supreme Court's Dred Scott case, and argues against the Missouri Compromise on the grounds that slaves, as property, could not be affected by federal legislation.
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