in the area near james harlan who was john marshall's father's mother family had lived and so he had relatives he would travel to virginia from kentucky to visit his relatives. he was born at a time that james harlan was only 16 so some people would speculate as one explanation how he could be his son. but robert harlan became a prominent man and a law was written about him. when he was 8-years-old he and his mother undertook a journey from virginia to kentucky through wilderness with the idea that she was taking him to his father. many accounts say he arrived at harlem station. the father pretty much had to be somebody in the harlan circle. some of the accounts say they discovered his father was dead and then he became the property of james harlan while the mother somehow was sold down south. how these transpired was never explained. who the original owner was was never explained. how it was that he takes possession of this 8-year-old boy never completely explained. what is explained and he talked about later in life is that he took a tremendous interest in him at the time robert cam

one person dissented and all ofthem and that was john marshal harlan. it was a a mix of the sort of legal doctrine and the explanations of why they violateded the americans. and the structure of law that had been developed going back to the declaration of independence. >> this is something really fascinating. you're, talking about a person who has, who thinks about the inlaw as how this will be experienced because he has this relationship a lot of white people at the time wouldn't have had it may be. give us another beat on that. it's not just of the separate but equal, but that's what he is pfamous for. you're talking about these economic rights. why did he have access to knowledge of how the law would be experienced, the practical implications for poor labor rights what was said about his life that gave him this kind of moral clarity and the others on the supreme court that lapped that? >> he did stand out because of his background in kentucky and one was living in fear of the civil war. from the 1830s to the 1850s a deep sense of foreboding that they

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