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

The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories. The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for ... The following year the Missouri Supreme Court decided that case should be retried. In an 1850 retrial, the the St Louis circuit court ruled that ...

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after ... with Scott losing his case in the Missouri state courts before he ...

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the nation’s history. Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred ...