In the famous 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney discussed whether descendants of slaves, when they shall be emancipated, or who are born of parents who had become free before their birth, are citizens of a State, in the sense in which the word is used in the Constitution of the United States. In over one hundred pages of sound constitutional and historical arguments, Taney showed that such people were never intended by the framers of the Constitution to enjoy the same political status as the White Citizen of a State. This book also shows that the anti-slavery movement in the Nineteenth Century was primarily a Northern attempt to destroy the economic competition of the Southern slave States, and that "Free Soil" to most in the North meant free from Negroes. The author thoroughly demolishes the modern "politically correct" interpretation of the War of 1861 as a Northern crusade for the social and political equality of the Black man.