--- title: Dred Scott: Relative Accepts Apology From Justice's Family description: A descendant of Dred Scott accepted a public apology from the family of the Supreme Court justice who declared that slaves were not citizens canonical: https://time.com/4695485/dred-scott-apology-justice-family/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-08T18:22:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:49:10.785Z article:section: U.S. og:title: How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong og:description: "It's a new beginning" og:url: https://time.com/4695485/dred-scott-apology-justice-family/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23a72293187cd938/6988bd53656a3ffa93bcf0f4/charley-taney.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Scott Taney Reconciliation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong twitter:description: "It's a new beginning" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt23a72293187cd938/6988bd53656a3ffa93bcf0f4/charley-taney.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong > Sponsored content. 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Filmmaker Dawn Porter looks at the racial politics of abortion in America today._  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 8, 2017 6:22 PM UTC  Lynne Jackson (R), a descendant of Dred Scott, hugs Charles Taney III, a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, on the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision in front of the Maryland State House on March 6, 2017, in Annapolis, Md. Lynne Jackson (R), a descendant of Dred Scott, hugs Charles Taney III, a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, on the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision in front of the Maryland State House on March 6, 2017, in Annapolis, Md. Kenneth K. Lam—The Baltimore Sun/AP  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Mar 8, 2017 6:22 PM UTC More than a century after the Supreme Court declared that Dred Scott and his fellow slaves were not U.S. citizens, descendants of Scott and the court’s chief justice at the time have come together to heal a rift of anger and guilt that spanned generations. This week, the family of former Supreme Court Justice [Roger Brooke Taney](http://time.com/4549190/roger-taney-legacy/) offered [a public apology ](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/supreme-court-justice-family-apologizes-family-slave)on the 160th anniversary of the [landmark decision](https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html). Lynne Jackson, the great-great granddaughter of the man who tried suing for his freedom in a monumental court, is embracing the apology and praised Taney’s family for working to right the wrongs of the late judge. “The fact that they were willing to put themselves out there, I’m very proud of them for stepping out in a public arena and making that declaration of honest truth — not whitewashing it, not making excuses, not denying it,” Jackson, 64, told TIME on Wednesday. “I knew it was a sincere apology so that made it very meaningful for me. It wasn’t like, ‘We should just say that and run.’” In 1857, Taney ruled that black people, who were either slaves or who had ancestors who were slaves, were not American citizens and had no standing to sue in federal court. The decision indirectly became a catalyst for the Civil War before it was later overturned. Charles Taney III, a great-great-great-nephew of the chief justice, on Monday stood in front of a crowd outside the Maryland State House — where a statue of his ancestor stands — and said he was sorry for the decision. “Apologizing to the Scotts for the Dred Scott decision is like bringing a Band-Aid to an amputation. It’s right and necessary to apologize, but what’s important now is what actions we can all take,” he said, according to the [Baltimore _Sun_](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-scott-taney-reconciliation-20170306-story.html). Jackson said she had wanted to meet the Taney family for a decade since she founded [The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation](http://www.thedredscottfoundation.org/dshf/), a nonprofit that aims to educate the public about the Supreme Court case. “I always wondered what it would be like,” the St. Louis resident told TIME. Her curiosity was quelled last May when she received an email from Charles Taney III’s daughter inviting her to meet the Taneys in New York. The Taneys also invited her to view a play Taney’s daughter wrote that addresses the two family’s histories. That sparked the start of a connection. “I was just floored,” Jackson said. “That was my first encounter with them and it was very genuine. They had a very open, honest approach and said, ‘You know what? That was our ancestor, and he was terribly wrong.’ They don’t deny the reality.” Charles Taney III, a strategic planner, then spent the next few months helping Jackson’s foundation. Jackson said she hopes the two families can serve as a model, inspiring people to heal longtime differences and come together. “We have this climate around us of too much division,” she said. “They are willing to come side-by-side and walk forward in a positive way that we know will open doors to help create change.” Jackson added that she received more than just a feeling of closure from the public apology. “Closure sounds like the end and you can walk away,” she said. “I think it’s an opening. I think it’s a new beginning.” ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] My mother grew up in New York City, in Harlem in the 1950's. Her father was a physician and a surgeon at Harlem Hospital. I only knew a little bit about this part of my mother's life, so I asked her to tell me more about it. [ MUSIC ] Well as you know my family was the first family to move into our building. [ MUSIC ] I was I think about two years, [ UNKNOWN ] And that was my world. [ MUSIC ] My grandfather had a cousin who was a doctor living in North Carolina. Cousin Albert had more work than he could handle and he asked my grandfather comes South to help out. So my grandfather moved his family to Sleepy Wadesboro, North Carolina. Where he worked as local country doctor. My time in Wadesboro was very different than my time in New York. Most of his clients were very poor. People paid him in corn. And put your hugs and so we have lots of food. My bedroom faced over a highway up on a hill and one night all of the sudden I see like The on highway, all these cars like a row, and there is a trail of white sheets. I didn't know what the Coolock clan was, but i knew that everybody in the house was afraid. And one night The sheriff came, Albert poured drinks, they sat around chatting for a while and then they took him away. He was arrested. He was arrested because a white woman reported that he had performed an abortion for her. I never knew about this part of my family history. I knew that the issue of abortion in America has always been racially charged, but until I started making Trapped, my feature documentary about abortion, I never really considered how the experience of having an abortion might be different for black women. My friends it is a baby. It is a child. According to the Center for Disease Control, black women have abortions at five times the rate of white women. Certainly the reasons are complicated. But experts point to barriers like a lack of access to education, reproductive health care, and income disparity. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You pretend to be a When are you going to come back to Christ? Dr. Parker, much like my grandfather did, travels across the south providing women access to medical care, including abortion. He's become a well- known advocate for access to abortion care. If you're trying to wipe out the black race. Since you noticed, they're trained to wipe them out. I was prepared for protesters, but it was still shocking to hear the protesters call Dr. Parker a filthy negro abortionist. They were even disgusted with me, for my position, while making this film. Are you pro- choice? I am pro- choice, yes. It's easy to be pro- choice because you're not the one being killed. That's all I have to say. That's right, amen, yeah, what do you got to say about that? That's all I have to say. Hey, were you pro- choice about slavery, too? Cuz that was a privacy issue back in the 1800s. Were you pro- choice about that? You think slavery and abortion [ INAUDIBLE ] Pro choice about slavery, Dred Scott all that. i don; t understand your point. Good job. Is it pro choice about slavery? [ LAUGH ] I don't know why you keep bringing race into the conversation. You know because we like black babies, black babies matter to us but apparently not to you. And you don't care one bit because you're pro choice. You stand beside those Folks, good job! Good job! You're a disgrace to your race! It was absolutely surreal to hear older white men lecture me about the impact of abortion on the lives of black women. Meanwhile I was interviewing real women inside the clinics hearing their painful stories and how hard their choices were. It made me realize just how infrequently black women's stories are really ever told. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] All right, put today's date in this blank. You're gonna sign and date here. Nobody's forcing you to have this done. You do have 48 hours to change your mind. We did an ultrasound to find out how far along you are. You are less than 19 weeks pregnant. Do you know what your blood type is? No. Okay. Questions? No. All right, is there a reason why you didn't give me an emergency contact? Really don't have family here. Okay. Anybody? Friend? Church member? Boyfriend? Nobody Okay! On the other procedure, you gotta have to give me someone and it doesn't have to be someone in this vicinity. But if something happens to you here in the clinic, I need to be able to notify someone, okay? So whether it be your mom and she lives in another state, that's fine. But I still need an emergency contact okay? Now what are you going to do as far as the drive on the day of the procedure? A cab maybe. Okay. You're gonna have to have someone with you I can't put you in a cab sedated with someone you don't know and I don't know. What we can do is talk to the volunteers maybe. Sometimes they will Assist if you don't have a driver, because I'm not comfortable sending you with someone I don't know. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I am 20. What do you do? As a far as work? Yeah. I'm a cashier at Walmart. I make $ 9 in hour. Being a single parent is not easy. I'm starting to become a paramedic. I just feel like with another child then what I'm trying to do right now. I don't feel like I can do it. So I'm just trying to pursue my dreams so I can just had better for my son. How old is your kid? My son is 19 months. he's a great kid and I just want to take care of him. I don't really think I can do a second child, not by myself. How do you feel about your decision? Like a bad person. Say more about that. Why do you feel bad? Are you a religious person? I try to be. What does your religious understanding say to you about abortion? I know that God don't want this for me, but I did pray on it. I just want him to understand it. I feel like I should go through with it. Mm- hm. I just want him to understand. I don't want him to be upset with me, because if I do it, [ SOUND ] Continuous in that what I would want for you is that you'd be able say, you know what that was a jacked up situation, but if I had to do it all over again, I'd make the same decision because I made the best decision I could make. And that way you don't have to second guess yourself and nobody who's walking in your shoes can question you because they're not in your shoes. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I'm not a good person at all. I just feel like a bad person, a bad female. Okay, the only rule I'm gonna give you is you may not say I'm not a good person any more, cuz that is not the case. An unintended pregnancy is an unintended An unintended pregnancy is an unintended pregnancy. That's all it is. That's all it is. So, no more. Okay. Okay? I'm not kidding. As crazy as it sounds I said I would rather an abortion than to give the baby up to a family I don't know. Because if I wanna hold it in, that's love. And I don't wanna, [ SOUND ]. Sorry. [ SOUND ] And I can give that love away. [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] Deciding to have an abortion is never easy, but in many places it's also incredibly logistically difficult. Especially for black women. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] In June of 2016 the United States Supreme Court determined that so- called Trap Laws, which have resulted in the closure of so many abortion clinics are illegal, but there is still only one abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi. Luckily there's also one woman there who always listens. [ MUSIC ]. I live in Jackson Mississippi and I work at Jackson Women's Health, the abortion clinic. Getting ready to walk through those doors is the hardest part. And she's probably torn so many different directions. By the time she gets to me, she's barely sure of what she needs to do for herself. A lot of the private counseling that I do I hear interesting stories and most of them is about being torn one way or another. My name is Betty. Everyone around here calls me Ms. Betty, and what I do is I am available to you to talk to you about whatever's going on with you. What we usually do is do a group counseling where I tell you what to expect on surgery day. For me, being a mother is everything. Not only am I a mother to my two boys, I am a mother to the rest of the women in this clinic. [ MUSIC ] I think the protesters think that these women just get up in the morning and decide to go have an abortion. When they have put their heart and souls into their decisions and have to walk through that gauntlet out there to even come in and discuss with us the process. [ MUSIC ] I hate to think about what would happen to the women of Mississippi if this clinic closes. [ MUSIC ] It's tough for women right now. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ]. Ms. Betty is like a mother to her patients. But over and over in the three years of making the film trapped, I heard so many women tell me about their shame In how they felt they were letting their own family down, particularly their mothers. And even though I was making a documentary about abortion and interviewing so many women. I'd realized I've never asked my own mother if abortion had impacted her life. 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