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.

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 ...

Twitted on all sides for his wife’s ownership of slaves, Chaffee soon fixed up a technical transfer of the Dred Scott family to his wife’s New York brother, John Sandford, who thus became the ...

They were debating whether much of the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford should be excised from constitutional-law courses. In the case, which Scott brought in federal court to assert ...

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of the US Civil War over the issue of slavery, stating that enslaved ...

An engraving of Dred Scott (1795-1858), an African American plaintiff in the Dred Scott decision handed down by the Supreme Court in 1857, which ruled that Scott as a African American was not a US ...

Among the six cases in the document attributed to the NFRA was the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857. Dred Scott? Are you kidding me? Dred Scott is widely regarded as one of the worst ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies makes the argument in a newly adopted resolution, citing the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case, among others, which ruled at the time that enslaved ...