Dredd Scott.
Had the court ruled him a human being and not property, then the entire slave trade would have been nullified. Roberts reminds me of Taney in many ways.
Dredd Scott was overruled by the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution.
Fun fact: one of the reasons the court decided that Blacks weren’t fully human was that, if they were, they would have to be granted the right to keep and bear arms. The court couldn’t countenance such a thing.
The civil war kicks off with a Confederate sympathizer instead of Lincoln as President. American alt history doesn’t even take the typical “Two Americas” fictional path, it just goes straight up slave empire and joins the Scramble for Africa from the foothold in Liberia.
Dredd Scott.
Had the court ruled him a human being and not property, then the entire slave trade would have been nullified. Roberts reminds me of Taney in many ways.
Dredd Scott was overruled by the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution.
Fun fact: one of the reasons the court decided that Blacks weren’t fully human was that, if they were, they would have to be granted the right to keep and bear arms. The court couldn’t countenance such a thing.
I’d read a novel detailing how that alternate timeline plays out.
The civil war kicks off with a Confederate sympathizer instead of Lincoln as President. American alt history doesn’t even take the typical “Two Americas” fictional path, it just goes straight up slave empire and joins the Scramble for Africa from the foothold in Liberia.