DREDSCOTT
Dred Scott
Dred Scott, was a slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision." The case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, they had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, including Illinois and Minnesota . The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Dred Scott
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