Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from ...

Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

For years, enslaved Dred Scott and his family fought for their ... The Scotts sued their current owner, Irene Sanford, in a legal dispute that dragged on for an entire decade.

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred Scott ... such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Their parents were born in what was then the British ...