[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [TANEY, Roger (1777-1864)]. BENDANN, photographers. CDV of Chief Justice Taney holding hat and cane. [Baltimore, MD]: n.d.

2 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. albumen image printed directly on cardstock (surface soiling throughout, edges trimmed). Recto blindstamped "Bendann / Copyright Secured."

During his tenure as Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney played an integral role in several important Supreme Court decisions. He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which ruled that African Americans, being considered "of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race" at the time the Constitution was drafted, could not be considered citizens of the United States.

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [TANEY, Roger (1777-1864)]. BENDANN, photographers. CDV of Chief Justice Taney holding hat and cane. [Baltimore, MD]: n.d.

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [TANEY, Roger (1777-1864)]. BENDANN, photographers. CDV of Chief Justice Taney holding hat and cane. [Baltimore, MD]: n.d.

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[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] -- [TANEY, Roger (1777-1864)]. BENDANN, photographers. CDV of Chief Justice Taney holding hat and cane. [Baltimore, MD]: n.d.