2 Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)
3 Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) 250.
4 Fehrenbacher 262.
* A court official misspelled Sanford's name, making the case into Scott v. Sandford instead of Scott v. Sanford.
5 Fehrenbacher 270.
6 Fehrenbacher 272.
7 Fehrenbacher 276.
8 Stanley I. Kutler, The Dred Scott Decision: Law or Politics? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967) 4-5.
9 Stampp 88.
10 Fehrenbacher 305.
11 Stampp 91.
12 Fehrenbacher 309.
13 Kutler 5.
14 Fehrenbacher 315.
15 Vincent C. Hopkins, Dred Scott's Case (New York: Fordham University Press, 1951) 63.
16 Hopkins 63.
17 Hopkins 71.
18 Fehrenbacher 315.
19 Kutler 46-48.
20 Kutler 55.
21 Fehrenbacher 316-319.
22 Fehrenbacher 319.
23 Frederick S. Allis, Jr., "Dred Scott Labyrinth," Teachers of History: Essays in Honor of Laurence Bradford Packard, ed. H. Stuart Hughes, Myron P. Gilmor, and Edwin C. Rozwenc (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1954) 343.
24 John T. Brooke, Short Notes on the Dred Scott Case (Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers, 1861) 4: Lost Cause Press 275 (1971): fiche 1.
25 Kutler 103-104.
26 Brooke 19.
27 Kutler 62.
28 Kutler 59.
29 Brooke 4.
30 Kutler 64.
31 Kutler 67.
32 Kutler 70.
33 Kutler 111.
34 Abraham Lincoln, "House Divided" speech, Springfield, Illinois, 16 June 1858, online, C-SPAN, America Online, 29 Oct. 1995.