Complaint to the U.S. Supreme Cort

(Disclaimer: If William Craft did actually write a complaint to the Supreme Court after the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision in 1858, it more than likely would not matter. For the sake of creativity, we shall act like his complaint would matter. He hashes out multiple diatribes against our antebellum American laws and judicial decisions throughout the narrative, and I'll attempt to capture it.)

     My name is William Craft. My wife Ellen and I fled the "mighty United States of America, the greatest and freest country under the whole universe" to escape the wretched system of American slavery. Slavery inflicted my wife and I with such horrible conditions. I became so desperate for freedom, a human right, that I asked Ellen to guise herself as a white man and my master in order for us to escape. Imagine having to resort to asking your wives to strip themselves of their femininity and treat you as subhuman. Imagine having no other choice, but to place a constant anxiety on the one you wish to comfort the most.
     Justices of the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land,  you all support such an inhumane system. You can lay idle and deem robbery, rape, and murder constitutional. Regardless of your views on the humanity of people of color, your morality should beckon you against robbery, rape, and murder. Your decision in the Dred Scott case made the idea that black men and women were property rule of law. Still, I can only see such a perception of black people as an excuse for your immoral, greed mongering, tyrannical slavery. You feel shame for your evils and sought a way to rationalize it ex post facto. You make a mockery of the title "justice." You damn our "good Christian nation." You shame the level of scrutiny your Yankee legislation should have and the check and balances. I pray God has mercy on your souls.

William Craft