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About the Dred Scott Case ... In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave.
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library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
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1799; Dred Scott is born in Virginia as a slave of the Peter Blow family. He spent his life as a slave, and never learned to read or write. ... Dred Scott dies of tuberculosis and is buried in St. Louis. He was buried in Wesleyan Cemetery at what is now the intersection of Grand and Laclede Avenues in St. Louis (now part of...
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library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/chronology.html
library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/chronology.html
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Dred Scott's fight for freedom ... 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.
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www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
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Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision ... 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 state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted...
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Dred Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858), was a slave in the United States who sued unsuccessfully in St. Louis, Missouri for his freedom in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857. His case...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott
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Dred Scott (1795-1858), in an effort to gain his freedom, waged one of the most important legal battles in the history of the United States. ... Dred Scott was born a slave in Southampton County, Va. in 1795. Industrious and intelligent, he was employed as a farmhand, stevedore, craftsman, and general handyman.
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www.africawithin.com/bios/dred_scott.htm
www.africawithin.com/bios/dred_scott.htm
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During the 1850's in the United States, Southern support of slavery and Northern opposition to it collided more violently than ever before over the case of Dred Scott, a black slave from Missouri who claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in a free state and a free territory.
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www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html
www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html
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