Dred Scott's revenge: a legal history of race and freedom in America

Introduction

Slavery comes to the new world

American slavery

Ratifying and interpreting the constitution

Dred Scott and the Missouri compromise

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln and human freedom

Reconstruction : military rule in the post-Civil War South

Jim Crow

The federal government orchestrates racism

Black education in the South and the end of Jim Crow after Brown v. Board of Education

The civil rights legislation of the 1960s and afterward

How Democrats and Republicans use racial rhetoric to get elected

Justice and law enforcement

Baseball

Conclusion

A word about Thomas Jefferson.