This essay is, indeed, excellent. Essential to the argument is that the horror of Dred Scott is a horror of statelessness and subordination that is inclusive of slavery, but that goes further. Beyond the scholastic quibbling of the revisionists--the desire to make babies stateless is abhorrent.
Anthony Michael Kreis“In the face of this sudden burst of revisionism [scholars] on both the left and right have stood up to defend the traditional view and bring the weight of generations of scholarship to bear on the question. Their conclusion is the same as those who came before them.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...