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Supreme Injustice: Slavery and Our Highest Court


  • Monticello 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA, 22902 United States (map)

The three most important Supreme Court Justices before the Civil War—Chief Justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney and Associate Justice Joseph Story—upheld the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. These opinions cast a shadow over the Court and the legacies of these men, but historians have rarely delved deeply into the personal and political ideas and motivations they held. Join us for our livestream of Professor Paul Finkelman's book talk at Monticello HERE.

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