And he then filed suit after that on behalf of himself and two children he and his wife had, and said that he was no longer bound by slavery because he had been taken away from a slave state and therefore freedom had attached to him. Ted Shaw: So in 1857 the Supreme Court decided Dred Scott versus Sanford and this was a case in which a slave was brought out of Missouri where he lived and toiled by his master who took him up to the Northwest Territory what's now the Minneapolis St.
Theodore Shaw is a civil rights lawyer at the University of North Carolina law school and he is here to walk us through the 14th Amendment which he says begins with the Dred Scott case. So after the 13th Amendment formally outlawed slavery came the 14th intended to grant citizenship and equal rights to people of African descent and laying out sweeping protections for all Americans at the federal and state level.
#Due process clause 14th amendment series#
Virginia Prescott: Jack is right on time for part two of our continuing series on the Reconstruction Amendments those three amendments to the constitution passed in the wake of the civil war. We all know that were meant to fix the situation but did they actually do anything at the time? What about now? Are they working at all today We've been listening to your show and we've got a request: right after the Civil War there was that whole bundle of constitutional amendments that Congress passed. On our show we ransack the history of the Civil War and challenge the stories you grew up on. This is Jack hit from the podcast just down the road, Uncivil.
We got this question from one of the co-hosts of an excellent podcast about the Civil War called Uncivil. Virginia Prescott: I'm Virginia Prescott and this is Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on the basics of how democracy works.
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