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Dred Scott (
c. 1799 – 1858) was an
enslaved African American who, along with his wife,
Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the 1857 legal case
Dred Scott v. Sandford. The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived for four years in Illinois and the
Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was illegal, and laws in those jurisdictions said that slave holders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period. The
Supreme Court of the United States ruled against Scott in a
landmark decision that held the
Constitution did not extend
American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the
rights and privileges that the Constitution conferred upon American citizens. The
Dred Scott decision is widely considered the worst in the Supreme Court's history, being widely denounced for its overt
racism,
judicial activism, poor legal reasoning, and crucial role in
the events that led to the
American Civil War four years later. The ruling was later superseded by the passage of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery, in 1865, followed by the
Fourteenth Amendment, whose first section
guaranteed birthright citizenship for "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof", in 1868. This posthumous oil-on-canvas portrait of Scott was painted by Louis Schultze, after an 1857 photograph by John H. Fitzgibbon, and now hangs in the
Missouri History Museum in
St. Louis.
Painting credit: Louis Schultze, after John H. Fitzgibbon
Quotes:
"Martha Stewart writes picture books about gracious living.
She says there's not a problem in the world that can't be solved with a dried floral arrangement. I worship her."
--Patrick Stewart, "Jeffrey"
Rememver: Live like there is no tomorrow,
Dance like no one is watching &
Sing like no one is listening!
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Amusement: Don't these two resemble each other? Sculpture of Ramesess II (the Great) and pornstar Jenny Hendrix (aka Hot Haley)? She resembles him more in some pictures than in others.
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Somehow the mummy identified as Ramesess II doesn't resemble the sculpture, does he? True there is an age difference between the sculpture and the mummy, but still. One of the fine skills of the human brain is recognizing other people from their faces.
Main Entry: Liberty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: autarchy, authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enfranchisement, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, power of choice, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty, suffrage, unconstraint
Antonyms: arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint
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