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AUTHOR Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney

PLACE/TIME Supreme Court 1857

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Taney was a Southern Democrat Dred Scott lost: leading to a general atmosphere is discrimination in future generations, and to Jim Crowe Laws.

AUDIENCE To the public

REASON To deliver the Court's decision

THESIS/MAIN IDEA That even free blacks didn't have an equal status. People of African Origin could not be equal US citizens

SIGNIFICANCE Discrimination. Jim Crowe. National debate on slavery swifts to one side.