Dred Scotts Revenge, Andrew P. Napolitano
Dred Scotts Revenge, Andrew P. Napolitano
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Dred Scott's Revenge
A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America

Author: Andrew P. Napolitano

Narrator: Michael Quinlan

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 06/22/2021

Synopsis

Racial hatred is one of the ugliest of human emotions. And the United States not only once condoned it, it also mandated it?wove it right into the fabric of American jurisprudence. Federal and state governments legally suspended the free will of blacks for 150 years and then denied blacks equal protection of the law for another 150.How did such crimes happen in America? How were the laws of the land, even the Constitution itself, twisted into repressive and oppressive legislation that denied people their inalienable rights?Taking the Dred Scott case of 1957 as his shocking center, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano tells the story of how it happened and, through it, builds a damning case against American statesmen from Lincoln to Wilson, from FDR to JFK.Born a slave in Virginia, Dred Scott sued for freedom based on the fact that he had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Scott, denied citizenship to blacks, and spawned more than a century of government-sponsored maltreatment that destroyed lives, suppressed freedom, and scarred our culture.Dred Scott's Revenge is the story of America's long struggle to provide a new context?one in which "All men are created equal," and government really treats them so.

About Andrew P. Napolitano

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, currently seen by millions of viewers weeknights on The Big Story and The O'Reilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest person in New Jersey history to receive a lifetime judgeship. He is bright (graduate of Princeton and Notre Dame Law School), articulate (four times voted most outstanding professor at the two law schools at which he taught), and broadcast-experienced (as a daily fixture on Fox News Channel since 1998). He is the author of Constitutional Chaos and The Constitution In Exile.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donna on June 07, 2009

Most likely you recognize the name Dred Scott from the infamous court decision or the term getting off "Scot free. " If you're from Missouri, especially the St. Louis area, you learned about the Dred Scott case as part of Missouri History. Not our finest moment. Using the Dred Scott case -- which wa......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 30, 2015

Conservatives tend to think that racial discrimination ended with the Civil War. Lincoln freed the slaves, and there were some problems with Jim Crow, sure, but all that racism stuff ended in 1865. We likewise conclude on the same basis that it's been so long since slavery that nobody need reparatio......more

Goodreads review by Christy on November 15, 2023

The first three chapters of this book were almost boring because of how much I agreed with the author’s points. I liked his point that the government, in some instances, should embrace natural law and do what is morally correct instead of embracing positivism (following the letter of the law). And T......more

Goodreads review by Shaheed on April 30, 2024

An interesting read for sure especially in terms of the neverending battle between natural law and positivism. Positivism seems to be winning and it isn't close. Several flaws in this one, but they are understandable given the author's political leanings; deliberate mischaracterizations of Malcolm X......more

Goodreads review by Jack on July 13, 2017

Now We Are All Losing Our Rights The theory of positive law, once applied to justify slavery, is now applied to all citizens. The theory of law once used to deny the rights of some is now used to deny the rights of all. Without agreeing with all of Judge Napolitano's characterizations, the theme of t......more

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