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Dred Scott

c. 1795-1858

Who Was Dred Scott?

Dred Scott was born into slavery sometime around 1795 and made history decades later by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom. Scott and his family had spent time in two free states while working for their owner John Emerson. After Emerson died, Scott tried and failed to buy freedom for himself and his family. He took his case to the Missouri courts, where he won, only to have the decision overturned. Scott’s federal case wound up at the U.S. Supreme Court. The court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford was handed down on March 6, 1857, and also denied Scott’s freedom. The extremely controversial event was a precursor for Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War. Scott died in his 60s in 1858, prior to either event.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Dred Scott
BORN: circa 1795
DIED: September 17, 1858
BIRTHPLACE: Southampton County, Virginia
SPOUSE: Harriet Robinson (1836-1858)
CHILDREN: Eliza, Lizzie, and two sons who died in infancy

Born Into Slavery

Dred Scott was born into slavery sometime arou

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Who Was Dred Scott?

Dred Scott was born into slavery around 1799 in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1818, he moved with his owner Peter Blow to Alabama, then in 1830 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri—both slave states—where Peter ran a boarding house.

After Blow died in 1832, army surgeon Dr. John Emerson purchased Scott and eventually took him to Illinois, a free state, and then to Fort Snelling in Wisconsin Territory where the Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery. There, Scott married Harriet Robinson, also enslaved, in a rare civil ceremony; her owner transferred ownership of Harriet to Emerson.

In late 1837, Emerson returned to St. Louis but left Dred and Harriet Scott behind and hired them out. Emerson then moved to Louisiana, a slave state, where he met and married Eliza (Irene) Sandford in February 1838; Dred Scott soon joined them.

Did you know? Dred Scott, along with several members of his family, was formally emancipated by his owner just three months after the Supreme Court denied them their freedom in the Dred Scott decision.

In October 1838, Emerson, his w

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Dred Scott

African-American plaintiff in freedom suit (c.1799–1858)

For the Supreme Court decision, see Dred Scott v. Sandford.

For other uses, see Dred Scott (disambiguation).

Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslavedAfrican American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". The Scotts claimed that they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal, and laws in those jurisdictions said that slave holders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period.

In a landmark case, the United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Scott's temporary residence in fr