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11/21/09
FREDERICK (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque this week to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it - and to quell a local controversy. Find Us On Facebook
The rectangular bronze marker stands on a granite pedestal at Frederick City Hall about eight feet from a stern bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney that has occupied the plaza for nearly 80 years despite calls for its removal. The plaque is a compromise between residents who wanted the Taney statue gone and those who consider him a great jurist whose...
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