Dred Scott (Person)
Dred Scott
1799 AD - 1858 AD
An enslaved African-American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife, Harriet, and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision".
Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal and their laws said that slaveholders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period.
References
- Wikipedia - Dred Scott
- Wikipedia - Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Wikipedia - Harriet Robinson Scott
- Missouri State Archives - Missouri's Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857
- Mississippi Valley Traveler - The Lives of Dred and Harriet Scott
- Christopher Jones - Portraits of Peter Blow and Elizabeth Taylor Blow
- Geni - John Francis Alexander Sanford
- Wikipedia - John F. A. Sanford
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1837 AD
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