I find it distasteful to hide such a disgusting chapter in our history of cruelty to man. We should learn from history not hide from it.
"Taney would have been on reasonably strong ground had he limited himself to upholding the district court’s decision based on the idea that status was to be determined by the states. Alternatively, he could have held that Scott was not entitled to sue Sanford in federal court on the basis of
diversity of jurisdiction, because Missouri did not allow even free African Americans to be citizens. But Taney outraged much of the North by asserting that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States. The framers, in his view, did not regard African Americans as being among the “people” for whose benefit and protection the new government was founded, notwithstanding the perfectly general language of the
Declaration of Independence and of the preamble to the Constitution."
Two
justices,
John McLean of Ohio and
Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts, wrote devastating
critiques of Taney’s opinion. Curtis in particular undercut most of Taney’s historical arguments, showing that African Americans had voted in a number of states at the founding. “At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation,” he wrote:
Thus, Curtis argued, they were members of the nation and could not now be
denied the right to claim citizenship."
Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was...
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Pretty sure they used explosives to destroy the artifacts, not vote on resolutions to remove them to other locations.