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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 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 decision | Definition, History, Summary ...Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was unconstitutional.
- Dred Scott: Biography, Abolitionist, Legal Figure, ActivistDred Scott was an enslaved person who sued for his freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford. Read about his life and the decision’s impact.
- Dred Scott | Biography & Facts | BritannicaDred Scott (born c. 1799, Southampton county, Virginia, U.S.—died September 17, 1858, St. Louis, Missouri) was an African American slave at the centre of the U.S. Supreme Court’s pivotal Dred Scott decision of 1857 (Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford).
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