Slavery; holding that slaves taken into free states became free; overturned twenty years later by Dred Scott v. Sandford.
The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
The book explores the US Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the court ruled that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories.
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Charles W. Sandford (1796–1878), American militia and artillery officer, lawyer and businessman
His command seriously weakened due to manpower shortages during the American Civil War, Sandford served on active duty with the Union Army from April 19 to July 25, 1861.
21 years after the decision, the created precedent was relied upon by US Supreme Court Justice John McLean in the landmark decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford by the U.S. Supreme Court.
With dissertations On the rise and progress of literature, by Sir D. K. Sandford, D.C.L. M.P., On the progress of science by Thomas Thomson, M.D. F.B.S.L. & E. &c.