Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court

by Paul Finkelman

Book Overview

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War--Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story--upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. In Supreme Injustice, the distinguished legal historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674051211
• ISBN13: 9780674051218
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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