The Dred Scott Decision: Crash Course Black American History #16

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  • Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 63

  • @mariaantoinette3958
    @mariaantoinette3958 3 года назад +1352

    “Let’s keep going before I get in trouble.” I felt that.

  • @toadstoolpidgin
    @toadstoolpidgin 3 года назад +882

    You are so good at keeping an even tone and not making your personal feelings obvious. This one musta been real tough

  • @animuszen136
    @animuszen136 3 года назад +172

    I’m not gonna lie, I was excited for this series when it first came out, but I think I can say with some confidence. That I and many others were worried that it wouldn’t live up to the hype. Never have I been so happy to be so wrong. Keep doing the good work of true patriots who love this country and it’s promise to all people that their rights be granted and secured, may the work bear fruits recognized to be the result of the work of those often forgotten.

  • @tpspeed
    @tpspeed 3 года назад +206

    This is something that I never learned about in school. I'm incredibly glad for having this course for moments like this. Thank you.

  • @alyssarodriguez4227
    @alyssarodriguez4227 2 года назад +81

    I have learned more about Black American History from CrashCourse and Clint Smith than any teachers I had growing up. Thank you so much for this. We must know the tragic decisions our country has made and acknowledge them if we are ever going to make a change. Thank you again these are the history lessons that teachers should've spent more time on.

  • @NotApplicable1123
    @NotApplicable1123 3 года назад +309

    Heard this decision referenced several times, never learned this much about it. Thank you.

  • @RKO1988
    @RKO1988 3 года назад +155

    People talking about how awesome the Supreme Court is should look at this case and the one against Plessy vs Ferguson

  • @milesjolly6173
    @milesjolly6173 3 года назад +184

    7:14 I was feeling the same thing just then.
    I wanted to use some choice four letter words to describe Taney, but decided against it.
    I can’t imagine how African Americans at the time must have felt when they heard of the ruling.

  • @tysonb1460
    @tysonb1460 3 года назад +43

    Amazing job on presenting this. This is what we should have been taught in school when I was younger.

  • @dlanska
    @dlanska 3 года назад +96

    I thought this was a wonderful presentation. But what happened to Dred Scott and his family after this decision? The on-line material also leaves this out. They get to the decision and then we don't learn how things transpired in later years for this pivotal family.

  • @younggabriel
    @younggabriel 3 года назад +86

    This case hits hard every time.

  • @jamesc.lockwood3810
    @jamesc.lockwood3810 3 года назад +178

    It might have been helpful to cite the 2 dissenting opinions in Scott V Sanford to help show that Blacks were considered citizens of the US in some states, proving that Taney was factually incorrect in his obiter dictum.

  • @patrickcarpenter4524
    @patrickcarpenter4524 3 года назад +29

    how do you know when you have an abhorrent social policy? when you have to establish technicalities that are absurd and absurdly cruel: case in point: if an enslaved man passes through free country, can he be considered free while in free country? If an enslaved man has one foot in a free state and one in a slave state, how much of the body is free? it reminds me of the bureaucratic insidiousness of the Wannsee Conference on Jewishness and the Final Solution.
    Thank you very much for this video.

  • @canaisyoung3601
    @canaisyoung3601 3 года назад +54

    I wish you guys were around in 2003 when I had to study the Dredd Scott case as part of my Problems with Democracy class (yes, it was actually called that. It was a high school class, not college).

  • @dianagibbs3550
    @dianagibbs3550 2 года назад +5

    Thank you, again, for this work. I know it's hard and I'm so glad you're doing it. I hope this course becomes a must-watch part of high school for a lot of America.

  • @The1SuperAtheist
    @The1SuperAtheist Год назад +14

    This man has more integrity, honor, class and intelligence than the majority of our former Supreme Court Justices combined and multiplied. Black Americans were treated horribly throughout history and imo should receive an apology and reparations. I believe just in the fact that the US government built the Middle class and entirely left out the black community is enough to deserve reparations and an formal apology by the United States Government. My second great grandfather fought for the confederate army during the Civil War. I am ashamed of that. Idk what kind of man he was but I can only assume he was at the minimum morally bankrupt.

  • @cedricvelarde
    @cedricvelarde 3 года назад +43

    Taney seemed to be the worst chief justice

  • @LeeSwen
    @LeeSwen Год назад +5

    A "... deeply shameful moment in American history." Thank you for telling the story of the Dred Scott Decision.

  • @RamboKingz23
    @RamboKingz23 3 года назад +56

    Another fantastic educational content 💯
    The beginning is something I always thought about being an American

  • @michelleshaw5817
    @michelleshaw5817 Год назад +8

    Excellent, thank you, for your dignity and honor in telling the truth about this tragic historical incident.

  • @VergilRenata
    @VergilRenata Год назад +7

    Felt that sigh at 7:11

  • @MsCassie272
    @MsCassie272 3 года назад +28

    Thank you for a clear and concise explanation of the Dred Scott decision.

  • @malcolmclay9856
    @malcolmclay9856 3 года назад +65

    Thanks for creating this crash course it will be alot more helpful to learn considering all these attacks on CRT

  • @peope1976
    @peope1976 3 года назад +88

    I'm shivering with rage.
    (And I'm a white Swede)

  • @georgefitzhugh6455
    @georgefitzhugh6455 3 года назад +20

    Very informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

  • @rainb5987
    @rainb5987 Год назад +3

    That's the most painful Supreme Court case I've ever heard

  • @mattphillips3755
    @mattphillips3755 Год назад +1

    I love you and what you're doing, Dr. Smith.

  • @themugx
    @themugx 2 года назад +3

    i love that the host isn’t going to fast and isn’t being to happy during when he’s talking about millions of people being enslaved but not too sad, just the right amount, black american history is a sad, and inspirational roller coaster ;D

  • @nileshkumaraswamy2711
    @nileshkumaraswamy2711 3 года назад +67

    Ah yes the worst US supreme court decision in history, really saying something give it's history.

  • @shelleysprinkle873
    @shelleysprinkle873 Год назад +1

    Thank you Professor Clint!!!!!!!

  • @Wesblumarine
    @Wesblumarine 3 года назад +7

    Great video! Thank you for making this!

  • @BigDaddy136
    @BigDaddy136 2 года назад +2

    " I have a lot of feelings about Taney". Me too

  • @roderickgathings740
    @roderickgathings740 Год назад +2

    Excellent research!!!!!!

  • @user-sg5om4id2g
    @user-sg5om4id2g Год назад +1

    Helpful video, thanks!

  • @GamingWorld-oz1hr
    @GamingWorld-oz1hr 3 года назад +9

    I have watched most of your vedios ,it helps a lot

  • @theateroftheabsurd2168
    @theateroftheabsurd2168 2 года назад

    I just moved to the saint Louis area. I'll make some lemonade.... Illinois seems chill

  • @greendalek303
    @greendalek303 Год назад +2

    7:11 Wow. Respect. 😢

  • @tempedweller1
    @tempedweller1 2 года назад +2

    We deep inhaled/exhaled at the exact same moment.

  • @b4uhe
    @b4uhe Год назад +1

    Ty for helping me

  • @bigtrey914
    @bigtrey914 Год назад +3

    Good video

  • @LawnBunny777
    @LawnBunny777 2 года назад +4

    I'm white and feel so much anger over this as well! Thank you for this video! Any person regardless of color should be upset by this, any person with half a brain anyway!

  • @Sunlight_Moonbeams
    @Sunlight_Moonbeams 2 года назад +1

    thanks

  • @CamiloSanchez1979
    @CamiloSanchez1979 2 года назад +3

    The system was awfully rigged from the beginning.

  • @trevinowilliams
    @trevinowilliams Год назад

    I'm reading Cotton is King by E.N.Elliott..can you give me a clear understanding..Thanks

  • @JohnDavis_90
    @JohnDavis_90 Год назад +1

    Has it been overturned yet?

  • @AHGChicagoIL
    @AHGChicagoIL 11 месяцев назад

    THIS!!!🔥

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 3 года назад +8

    Woo let's goooo!

  • @vez9595
    @vez9595 3 года назад +11

    👏🏾

  • @bigtone3983
    @bigtone3983 8 месяцев назад

    Fred had no “status” as a Blackman.

  • @someonenew439
    @someonenew439 Год назад

    Dred Scott vs Sanford is a tale of the shortcomings of judicial activism. This would have never been ruled this way if the judges all practiced originalism.

  • @kclark12345
    @kclark12345 Год назад +1

    🐍🥷🏾🇺🇸🙂

  • @CrazeLegs07
    @CrazeLegs07 Год назад

    Because say Taney ain’t ish,.. On God..

  • @humphrydc
    @humphrydc Год назад +2

    Taney LLLL

  • @03303j
    @03303j Год назад

    pls talk faster

  • @frankwhite3659
    @frankwhite3659 2 года назад +4

    How ridiculous is this case in the first place in the overall scheme of things,in the courts trying to figure out if a human being,who was ACTUALLY OWNED by another person........should be free........SMFH!!!

  • @shelleysprinkle873
    @shelleysprinkle873 Год назад

    I am so thankful for your teaching Mr Clint🦚💕