The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

“When people hear the whole story that I do (and) when I travel around the country, they really get the nuances of the case—not just the headlines and the bylines,” Jackson said. Dred Scott ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred ... case states, going against the ...