Jacob Brandler

Research Topic

Denied Rights by Equality and Liberty: Dred Scott, Frederick Douglass, and the Dichotomous Regime

Supervisor: Professor Adam Smith

My project explores concepts of personhood and equality surrounding the 1857 U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott decision (primarily Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion) and Frederick Douglass's critique thereof, particularly interested in the question of how Taney's and Douglass's competing visions of America treat "the other".