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Article: VOICE AGAINST SLAVERY DRED SCOTT JURIST HAD STRONG TIES TO N. KENTUCKY.(EDITORIAL)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Byline: Jim Reis
As the United States tumbled toward Civil War in the late 1850s, the Dred Scott case drove another wedge between the North and South.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, issued in 1857, said slaves did not become free when taken into a free state, and, in essence, that slaves could not become citizens.
At the center of that debate was a Supreme Court associate justice named John McLean. McLean spent most of his adult life in Ohio, but his early life included several years growing up in Maysville and marriage to a Newport woman. One of his sons also was a graduate of Augusta College.
The following is a look at the life and ...