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Calvin Chaffee

American doctor and abolitionist

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  • Dred Scott
    In Dred Scott: Final days as a freedman

    …second husband, the abolitionist doctor Calvin Chaffee, now a Massachusetts representative, learned that his wife owned the most famous slave in America just before the court handed down its momentous decision in Scott’s case on March 6, 1857. Defenders of slavery ridiculed the hypocrisy of a man who owned slaves…

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