A gifted slave whose name adorns the 19th century's most celebrated legal case, Dred Scott claimed that his temporary residence in a free state, Illinois, entitled him to freedom—after being ...

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

This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

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 ...

before the Dred Scott decision of 1857 and the secession crisis that soon delivered the nation into the Civil War. Calling ...

Southerners loved the idea Northerners hated it Kansas and Nebraska became a battle ground Anti-slavery leaders formed the Republican Party with the political aim of opposing slavery Dred Scott ...