After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

One of the historic building's four first-floor galleries will now focus on how the infamous Dred Scott case was a product of ...

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children, held as slaves by the defendant [Sanford], in the State of Missouri; and he brought this action in the Circuit Court of the United ...