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America's Long Struggle against Slavery. Episode 22, Roger Taney: Nationalizing Slavery

2021
Learn about the confounding life of Roger Taney, who as a young man turned his back on his family's tobacco plantation and manumitted many of his own slaves. Yet, as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he dramatically expanded the rights of slaveholders through infamous decisions such as Dred...
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