This is the second Essay in a two-part series exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.
September
2024
I thank Candace Jackson Gray for her help in researching census and tax records connected to Chief Justice Marshall’s slaveholding, and Charles F. Hobson, Tim Huebner, Alysa Landry, and R. Kent Newmyer for their many comments on early versions of this piece. I thank Harvard University Press for allowing me to reprint material in this essay that comes from my book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court (Harvard 2018).
This is the second Essay in a two-part series exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.
I thank Candace Jackson Gray for her help in researching census and tax records connected to Marshall’s slaveholding, and Charles F. Hobson, Tim Huebner, Alysa Landry, and R. Kent Newmyer for their many comments on early versions of this piece.
This is the first of two Essays exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.