Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from ...

For years, enslaved Dred Scott and his family fought for their ... The Scotts sued their current owner, Irene Sanford, in a legal dispute that dragged on for an entire decade.

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of the US Civil War over the issue of slavery, stating that enslaved ...

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In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no black of African descent (free or slave) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to ...