The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred ... which mirror those that have led nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea into totalitarian regimes,” he claimed.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

The North may had emancipated its slaves ... and increasingly denied blacks their citizenship. And in 1857 the Dred Scott decision formally declared that blacks were not citizens of the United ...