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Bookmark or Share- Dred Scott Case ‑ Decision, Definition & Impact | HISTORYIn the Dred Scott case, or Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that no black could claim U.S. citizenship or petition a court for their freedom.
- Dred Scott - WikipediaDred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision".
- Dred Scott v. Sandford - WikipediaThe decision involved the case of Dred Scott, an enslaved black man whose owners had taken him from Missouri, a slave-holding state, into Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was illegal.
- Dred Scott v. Sandford | OyezDred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man.
- THE DRED SCOTT DECISION - United States Courtsred Scott was an African American slave who sued for his freedom in 1846. After 11 years of legal battles in state and federal courts, he remained a slave. In 1857, the United States Supreme Court declared in its infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that all persons of
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