1850 Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and Dred Scott – Waypoints

Abraham Lincoln, 1859 Letter to Henry Lee

Abraham Lincoln, Speech on Dred Scott

1856 Presidential Election results

Defense speech in the Gruber case

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)

Abraham Lincoln, Fragments on Slavery

Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (Speech at Peoria)

1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Federalist Papers (#54)