My former home of St. Louis boasts, as one of its historical gems, the Old Courthouse. Countless important moments in American history took place in the 19th-century building. Admittedly, St. Louisans don’t brag about its connection to one of the most notorious and degrading legal decisions in American history. It was at this courthouse that two slaves, Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, began a more than decadelong legal saga in 1846. The two argued that, having lived for a significant time in free states, they could not be...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2019 23:48 UTC