Dred 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 …

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.

2009年10月27日 · In 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.

The 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.

2024年7月8日 · In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to their residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited. The odds were in their favor.

2025年1月25日 · Dred 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).

2024年2月8日 · Dred 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.

2012年5月21日 · red 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

By convincing many Northerners that the South was determined to preserve and extend slavery, the Dred Scott decision served to widen the gap between Northern and Southern states. Scott did get his freedom, but not through the courts.

Dred 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.