Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. The ruling led to the Civil War, which ultimately resulted in the ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... While there, Scott met and married Harriet Robinson, a slave owned by a local justice of the peace. Ownership of Harriet was transferred ...

“In the year 1835, Harriet . . . was the negro slave of Major ... before the federal Dred Scott case got under way. Meanwhile, “master” Emerson had died and his widow had married an ...

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 ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred Scott, an enslaved Black man, sued for his freedom alongside his wife ...

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. A huge piece of history sits right in downtown St. Louis, and even more ...