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No Right To Respect: Dred Scott And The Southern Honor Culture, Cecil J. Hunt
No Right To Respect: Dred Scott And The Southern Honor Culture, Cecil J. Hunt
Cecil J. Hunt II
Article Abstract: No Right to Respect: Dred Scott and the Southern Honor Culture; by Professor Cecil J. Hunt, II This article reflects on the 150th anniversary of the infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, 19 How. (60 U.S.) 393 (1857) in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the constitutionality of slavery. This essay is part of the considerable national effort by all of the constituencies in the American legal community to reflect on this infamous case and consider the distance the nation has come since it was decided as well as its continuing legacy on the …