In the United States, distinguished lawyers, judges, and political leaders promoted scientific racism and its white-supremacist assumptions. In the first half of the nineteenth century whites with an economic interest in slavery dominated the U.S. political and legal system. Explain how this influence was conspicuous in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford (1857) decision.

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