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Who was the chief justice of the supreme court when the dred scott decision was handed down?
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Who was the chief justice of the supreme court when the dred scott decision was handed down?

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Dred Scott case.

In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States.

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