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Chief Justice Roger Taney authored what is widely viewed as the worst single decision in the Supreme Court’s history, the pro-slavery decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford. It swept far beyond the question presented in that case to offer a philosophic defense of white supremacy and chattel slavery.
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