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A 5 page overview of two issues raised by the 1857 decision denying citizenship to blacks in America. While one of these impacts, the deleterious effect on black morale, is an obvious one; there were also less obvious impacts. One of these was that the decision in effect preventing the drafting of blacks to fight on the side of the North during the Civil War. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: AM2_PPdredSc.rtf
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The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 provides phenomenal insight into the manner in which blacks were viewed in American
society during this earlier time of our history. In his 1957 Freedom Rally Address Lafayette Thompson noted that the 1857 Dred Scott Decision:
"well illustrates the status of the Negro during slavery. For it was in this decision that the Supreme Court of the
nation said, in substance, that the Negro is not a citizen of this nation. He is merely property subject to the dictates of his owner. Living under these conditions many
Negroes lost faith in themselves. Many came to feel that perhaps they were less than human".
There were, of course, many societal reflections of this decision. One of the most interesting was indeed the impact to black morale. The predominant sentiment
during times of slavery in the United States was that a slave was a being which was inferior to whites. The contention was that the black slave lived in
a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anything less than that of his white owners.
In Democracy in America, Alexis Tocqueville writes: "The negro, plunged in this abyss of
evils, scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave; he admires his tyrants
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