The Dred Scott Decision: Crash Course Black American History #16

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  • Опубліковано 3 вер 2021
  • In this video, we'll learn about the US Supreme Court decision in Scott vs Sanford, handed down in 1857. The case ultimately rejected the idea that Black people could be citizens of the United States, and this helped entrench the institution of slavery, denied a host of rights to a huge number of people (both enslaved and free), and increased the tensions between abolitionists and enslavers.
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    VIDEO SOURCES
    www.britannica.com/event/Miss...
    Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (Oxford University Press, 1978).
    www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914465...
    www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-...
    The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States - www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCC...
    THIND V. UNITED STATES​ (1923)
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 64

  • @mariaantoinette3958
    @mariaantoinette3958 2 роки тому +1315

    “Let’s keep going before I get in trouble.” I felt that.

  • @toadstoolpidgin
    @toadstoolpidgin 2 роки тому +859

    You are so good at keeping an even tone and not making your personal feelings obvious. This one musta been real tough

  • @animuszen136
    @animuszen136 2 роки тому +162

    I’m not gonna lie, I was excited for this series when it first came out, but I think I can say with some confidence. That I and many others were worried that it wouldn’t live up to the hype. Never have I been so happy to be so wrong. Keep doing the good work of true patriots who love this country and it’s promise to all people that their rights be granted and secured, may the work bear fruits recognized to be the result of the work of those often forgotten.

  • @tpspeed
    @tpspeed 2 роки тому +200

    This is something that I never learned about in school. I'm incredibly glad for having this course for moments like this. Thank you.

  • @NotApplicable1123
    @NotApplicable1123 2 роки тому +305

    Heard this decision referenced several times, never learned this much about it. Thank you.

  • @RKO1988
    @RKO1988 2 роки тому +147

    People talking about how awesome the Supreme Court is should look at this case and the one against Plessy vs Ferguson

  • @lranieri1
    @lranieri1 2 роки тому +108

    Thank you, CrashCourse, for a very thought-provoking series. I had no idea about the day-to-day discrimination that African Americans face until I married one. I would add that most of my friends have been black throughout my life, and I belonged to several predominantly black churches, but they never shared with me what their daily reality was like. It wasn't until I started living with my husband and talking to him and his family that I learned. My point is, please don't assume that we know. We don't. We have to be taught about it, not from books, but from the people that live it.

  • @milesjolly6173
    @milesjolly6173 2 роки тому +179

    7:14 I was feeling the same thing just then.
    I wanted to use some choice four letter words to describe Taney, but decided against it.
    I can’t imagine how African Americans at the time must have felt when they heard of the ruling.

  • @younggabriel
    @younggabriel 2 роки тому +81

    This case hits hard every time.

  • @alyssarodriguez4227
    @alyssarodriguez4227 2 роки тому +76

    I have learned more about Black American History from CrashCourse and Clint Smith than any teachers I had growing up. Thank you so much for this. We must know the tragic decisions our country has made and acknowledge them if we are ever going to make a change. Thank you again these are the history lessons that teachers should've spent more time on.

  • @dlanska
    @dlanska 2 роки тому +93

    I thought this was a wonderful presentation. But what happened to Dred Scott and his family after this decision? The on-line material also leaves this out. They get to the decision and then we don't learn how things transpired in later years for this pivotal family.

  • @tysonb1460
    @tysonb1460 2 роки тому +39

    Amazing job on presenting this. This is what we should have been taught in school when I was younger.

  • @jamesc.lockwood3810
    @jamesc.lockwood3810 2 роки тому +175

    It might have been helpful to cite the 2 dissenting opinions in Scott V Sanford to help show that Blacks were considered citizens of the US in some states, proving that Taney was factually incorrect in his obiter dictum.

  • @canaisyoung3601
    @canaisyoung3601 2 роки тому +48

    I wish you guys were around in 2003 when I had to study the Dredd Scott case as part of my Problems with Democracy class (yes, it was actually called that. It was a high school class, not college).

  • @patrickcarpenter4524
    @patrickcarpenter4524 2 роки тому +26

    how do you know when you have an abhorrent social policy? when you have to establish technicalities that are absurd and absurdly cruel: case in point: if an enslaved man passes through free country, can he be considered free while in free country? If an enslaved man has one foot in a free state and one in a slave state, how much of the body is free? it reminds me of the bureaucratic insidiousness of the Wannsee Conference on Jewishness and the Final Solution.
    Thank you very much for this video.

  • @cedricvelarde
    @cedricvelarde 2 роки тому +41

    Taney seemed to be the worst chief justice

  • @peope1976
    @peope1976 2 роки тому +83

    I'm shivering with rage.
    (And I'm a white Swede)

  • @MsCassie272
    @MsCassie272 2 роки тому +28

    Thank you for a clear and concise explanation of the Dred Scott decision.

  • @malcolmclay9856
    @malcolmclay9856 2 роки тому +64

    Thanks for creating this crash course it will be alot more helpful to learn considering all these attacks on CRT

  • @JayTee78NIN
    @JayTee78NIN Рік тому +11

    This man has more integrity, honor, class and intelligence than the majority of our former Supreme Court Justices combined and multiplied. Black Americans were treated horribly throughout history and imo should receive an apology and reparations. I believe just in the fact that the US government built the Middle class and entirely left out the black community is enough to deserve reparations and an formal apology by the United States Government. My second great grandfather fought for the confederate army during the Civil War. I am ashamed of that. Idk what kind of man he was but I can only assume he was at the minimum morally bankrupt.

  • @RamboKingz23
    @RamboKingz23 2 роки тому +56

    Another fantastic educational content 💯
    The beginning is something I always thought about being an American

  • @georgefitzhugh6455
    @georgefitzhugh6455 2 роки тому +19

    Very informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

  • @dianagibbs3550
    @dianagibbs3550 Рік тому +3

    Thank you, again, for this work. I know it's hard and I'm so glad you're doing it. I hope this course becomes a must-watch part of high school for a lot of America.

  • @VergilRenata
    @VergilRenata Рік тому +2

    Felt that sigh at 7:11

  • @LeeSwen
    @LeeSwen Рік тому +2

    A "... deeply shameful moment in American history." Thank you for telling the story of the Dred Scott Decision.

  • @michelleshaw5817
    @michelleshaw5817 9 місяців тому +7

    Excellent, thank you, for your dignity and honor in telling the truth about this tragic historical incident.

  • @Wesblumarine
    @Wesblumarine 2 роки тому +6

    Great video! Thank you for making this!

  • @rainb5987
    @rainb5987 11 місяців тому +2

    That's the most painful Supreme Court case I've ever heard

  • @mattphillips3755
    @mattphillips3755 Рік тому

    I love you and what you're doing, Dr. Smith.

  • @nileshkumaraswamy2711
    @nileshkumaraswamy2711 2 роки тому +65

    Ah yes the worst US supreme court decision in history, really saying something give it's history.

  • @user-sg5om4id2g
    @user-sg5om4id2g Рік тому

    Helpful video, thanks!

  • @GamingWorld-oz1hr
    @GamingWorld-oz1hr 2 роки тому +8

    I have watched most of your vedios ,it helps a lot

  • @roderickgathings740
    @roderickgathings740 Рік тому +1

    Excellent research!!!!!!

  • @shelleysprinkle873
    @shelleysprinkle873 Рік тому

    Thank you Professor Clint!!!!!!!

  • @theateroftheabsurd2168
    @theateroftheabsurd2168 Рік тому

    I just moved to the saint Louis area. I'll make some lemonade.... Illinois seems chill

  • @themugx
    @themugx Рік тому +2

    i love that the host isn’t going to fast and isn’t being to happy during when he’s talking about millions of people being enslaved but not too sad, just the right amount, black american history is a sad, and inspirational roller coaster ;D

  • @BigDaddy136
    @BigDaddy136 Рік тому

    " I have a lot of feelings about Taney". Me too

  • @b4uhe
    @b4uhe Рік тому +1

    Ty for helping me

  • @tempedweller1
    @tempedweller1 Рік тому +2

    We deep inhaled/exhaled at the exact same moment.

  • @greendalek303
    @greendalek303 Рік тому +1

    7:11 Wow. Respect. 😢

  • @bigtrey914
    @bigtrey914 11 місяців тому +2

    Good video

  • @Sunlight_Moonbeams
    @Sunlight_Moonbeams Рік тому

    thanks

  • @trevinowilliams
    @trevinowilliams Рік тому

    I'm reading Cotton is King by E.N.Elliott..can you give me a clear understanding..Thanks

  • @AHGChicagoIL
    @AHGChicagoIL 8 місяців тому

    THIS!!!🔥

  • @LawnBunny777
    @LawnBunny777 Рік тому +3

    I'm white and feel so much anger over this as well! Thank you for this video! Any person regardless of color should be upset by this, any person with half a brain anyway!

  • @vez9595
    @vez9595 2 роки тому +11

    👏🏾

  • @JohnDavis_90
    @JohnDavis_90 Рік тому +1

    Has it been overturned yet?

  • @bigtone3983
    @bigtone3983 4 місяці тому

    Fred had no “status” as a Blackman.

  • @CamiloSanchez1979
    @CamiloSanchez1979 Рік тому +1

    The system was awfully rigged from the beginning.

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 2 роки тому +8

    Woo let's goooo!

  • @frankwhite3659
    @frankwhite3659 Рік тому +4

    How ridiculous is this case in the first place in the overall scheme of things,in the courts trying to figure out if a human being,who was ACTUALLY OWNED by another person........should be free........SMFH!!!

  • @someonenew439
    @someonenew439 Рік тому

    Dred Scott vs Sanford is a tale of the shortcomings of judicial activism. This would have never been ruled this way if the judges all practiced originalism.

  • @kclark12345
    @kclark12345 Рік тому +1

    🐍🥷🏾🇺🇸🙂

  • @humphrydc
    @humphrydc Рік тому +2

    Taney LLLL

  • @CrazeLegs07
    @CrazeLegs07 Рік тому

    Because say Taney ain’t ish,.. On God..

  • @03303j
    @03303j Рік тому

    pls talk faster

  • @shelleysprinkle873
    @shelleysprinkle873 Рік тому

    I am so thankful for your teaching Mr Clint🦚💕