 | Gregg David Crane - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...subject to enslavement at any time." Taney's comment in Dred Scott that, historically, free blacks had "no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and Government might choose to give them" provided constitutional justification for Delany's mistrust of... | |
 | Manning Marable - History - 2003 - 708 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, diey were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...government might choose to grant them. . . . It is very clear, therefore, that no State can, by any Act or law of its own, passed since the adoption of... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the government might choose to grant them. . . . The language of the Declaration of Independence is equally conclusive: It begins by declaring... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts - History - 2003 - 282 pages
...foreshadowing Plessy v. Ferguson) by defining all African Americans as noncitizens and slaves, "a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...not, yet remained subject to their authority" and hence were as transportable as other forms of property.4'' American Indian and African American resistances... | |
 | R. J. Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 232 pages
...the contrary, they were at that time [the drafting of the Constitution] considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...or not, yet remained subject to their authority."' Boston Daily Bee. as repnnted in The Liberator, l6 April l858; quoted in Leon F. Litwack. Nnrth of... | |
 | Robert Edgar Conrad - History - 2010 - 542 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their In the Hands ofStrangen authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power... | |
 | Eric H. Walther - History - 2004 - 240 pages
...Fathers, according to Taney, regarded these "as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who . . . had no rights or privileges but such as those who...power and the Government might choose to grant them." He considered all blacks "altogether unfit to associate with the white race" and so inferior "that... | |
 | Pierre Boyer, Linda Cardinal, David John Headon - Political Science - 2004 - 345 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the Government might choose to grant them. 4 That being said, it should be noted that the political entitlements associated with "the people"... | |
 | Corinne J. Naden, Rose Blue - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 136 pages
...citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time [1787] considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...power and the Government might choose to grant them. The decision of the Supreme Court, if accepted by the American people, would also have a desirable... | |
 | Jamin B. Raskin - Political questions and judicial power - 2004 - 316 pages
...potential citizens.47 "On the contrary," he wrote: they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated...the power and the Government might choose to grant them.48 We like to pretend that the Court erred grievously in Dred Scott because we want to believe... | |
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On the contrary they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but... 
