The 1857 Dred Scott Decision: Impact on Black Morale and the Military Draft During the Civil War
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5
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A 5 page overview of two issues raised by the 1857 decision denying citizenship to blacks in America. While one of these impacts, the deleterious effect on black morale, is an obvious one; there were also less obvious impacts. One of these was that the decision in effect preventing the drafting of blacks to fight on the side of the North during the Civil War. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: AM2_PPdredSc.rtf
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