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May 30, 2019 · Note for note, without mention of race, Mr. Buchanan and others echoed the historic calls for the public punishment of dark-skinned men thought to have defiled white women.
In the decision that followed that address two days later, the Supreme Court said that because Scott was black he was not a citizen and the Declaration of Independence precept that “all men are...
In a speech on April 11, 1826, James Buchanan referred to slavery as "a curse" and "a great political and a great moral evil." After becoming president, however, the "evil" that Buchanan condemned was not slavery but the North's interference with slavery.
- Buchanan Underestimated Northern Opposition to The Dred Scott Decision
- Buchanan Bungled His Response to The Kansas Slavery Debate
- Buchanan’s Response to Secession Draws Criticism
Buchanan was a Democrat from Pennsylvaniawhose critics referred to him as “doughface”—meaning he was a northerner with southern sympathies. “He had very deep and intimate personal relationships with southerners,” says Thomas J. Balcerski, a history professor at Eastern Connecticut State University and author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of ...
Just as Buchanan failed to understand that the debate over slavery would continue after Dred Scott, he also failed to anticipate how the expansion of slavery into western territories remained a divisive issue and one that would define his presidency. As the United States violently displaced Native Americans in western territories, white Americans m...
The first southern secessions occurred during the “lame duck” period of Buchanan’s presidency, in the months between Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the November 1860 election and Lincoln’s inauguration in March 1861. The first to secede was South Carolina in December 1860. By February, six more states had seceded, and many of Buchanan’s southern cabi...
- Becky Little
Dec 16, 2020 · In one of these videos an interviewee states that he chooses light-skinned women over dark because “all dark skins are ghetto and mean.” One definition of the word mean includes unkind, spiteful or unfair.
- Bianca Leigh
1 day ago · Prior to the 1960s, to call a black person “black” provided an occasion for fighting. How did African Americans move from considering blackness an insult to echoing James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud”? Either begin or end with the Constitution.
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Feb 28, 2021 · Research by Stanford psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt found that darker-skinned Black defendants were twice as likely as lighter-skinned Black defendants to get the death penalty for crimes involving white victims.
