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	WHEN IS A FREE MAN FREE? The Dred Scott Decision
		Sandford.) Scott claimed that as a citizen of the state of Missouri he was entitled to sue a citizen of another state in the federal courts.
		Taney declared that Dred Scott was not entitled to sue in the federal courts because he was not a citizen as that term was understood at the time the Constitution was adopted.
		After the American Civil War ended, some of the questions at issue in the Dred Scott case were settled by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that freed the slaves and the 14th Amendment that made them citizens of the United States and of their state of residence.
	www.worldfreeinternet.net /news/nws19.htm (1067 words)

	Dred Scott
		Dred Scott (1795-1858), in an effort to gain his freedom, waged one of the most important legal battles in the history of the United States.
		Dred Scott was born a slave in Southampton County, Va. in 1795.
		The justice argued that Scott was not a citizen because he was both a fl man and a slave.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/dred_scott.htm (512 words)

	SOS, Missouri - State Archives Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857
		Dred Scott was born to slave parents in Virginia sometime around the turn of the nineteenth century.
		Because Dred Scott was not free under either the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 or the 1820 Missouri Compromise, he was still a slave, not a citizen with the right to bring suit in the federal court system.
		Dred Scott tried to win his freedom at a time when white Americans were struggling to determine the political status of slavery, as well as their attitudes toward fl people, slave or free.
	www.sos.mo.gov /archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp (7629 words)

	Dred Scott Decision
		Dred Scott was not a normal slave, and he fought for a very long time to gain his freedom.
		Dred Scott was born as a slave for Peter Blow in the early 1800s.
		Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, filed a lawsuit against Irene Emerson for their freedom on April 6, 1846.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215469/dred_scott_decision.htm (1011 words)

	Dred Scott
		The Dred Scott Decision was one of the many arguments that led to the Civil War.
		Dred Scott was born a slave in 1795.
		When Dred Scott died in 1858 he was not a free man. Although he had fought hard and worked his way into the history books, he did not have the one and only one thing that he wanted… FREEDOM.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/dred_scott.htm (585 words)

	Dred Scott Case Trials :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
		The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis' Old Courthouse.
		Dred Scott was not ready to give up in his fight for freedom for himself and his family, however.
		He also ruled that as a slave, Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States, and therefore had no right to bring suit in the federal courts on any matter.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/scott_case_trials.html (618 words)

	Dred Scott Summary
		Scott's extended stay with his master in Illinois, a free state, gave him the legal standing to make a claim for freedom, as did his extended stay at Fort Snelling in the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was also prohibited.
		Dred Scott was born in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1795 as property of the Peter Blow family.
		Because her second husband opposed slavery, Emerson returned Dred Scott and his family to his original owners, the Blow family, who granted him freedom less than a year and a half before he died from tuberculosis in September 1858.
	www.bookrags.com /Dred_Scott (3397 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource
		The historic Dred Scott case is most remembered for what it said about Negros and their place in the United States.
		Sanford rested on the premise that because of the Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott became a free man when he was brought into the state of Illinois, thus his "owner" had no right to assault him.
		The verdict was that Scott, or any slave, was not free by virtue of residence in a free state or territory, and since Scott was living in Missouri, his status must ultimately be determined in a court there.
	www.toptags.com /aama/docs/dscott.htm (2615 words)

	Dred Scott
		Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847.
		Scott's extended stay in Illinois, a free state, gave him the legal standing to make a claim for freedom, as did his extended stay in Wisconsin, where slavery was also prohibited.
		But Scott never made the claim while living in the free lands -- perhaps because he was unaware of his rights at the time, or perhaps because he was content with his master.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html (790 words)

	The Dred Scott Case :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
		Dred Scott moved to St. Louis with the Blows in 1830, but was soon sold due to his master's financial problems.
		These were the questions being discussed in the Dred Scott case, with one major difference: your car is not human, and cannot sue you.
		Although few whites considered the human factor in Dred Scott's slave suit, today we acknowledge that it is wrong to hold people against their will and force them to work as people did in the days of slavery.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/dred_scott.html (655 words)

	Diagram of How the Case Moved Through the Court System, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Landmark Supreme Court Cases
		The Court found in favor of Sandford and stated that Scott should remain a slave, that as a slave he is not a citizen of the U.S. and thus not eligible to bring suit in a federal court, and that as a slave he is personal property and thus has never been free.
		Scott chose to bring a new suit in federal court on the basis that he and the defendant were now citizens of different states.
		The jury in a second trial decided that the Scotts deserve to be free, based on their years of residence in the non-slave territories of Wisconsin and Illinois.
	www.landmarkcases.org /dredscott/courtsystem.html (388 words)

	Dred Scott v. Sandford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dred Scott was held as a slave by white owners.
		Scott claimed that he was a citizen of Missouri and the defendant was a citizen of New York.
		Scott was not a citizen of Missouri, and the federal courts therefore lacked jurisdiction to hear the dispute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford (4104 words)

	Dred Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The slave of a U.S. Army doctor from Missouri, Dred Scott accompanied his master to different army posts in the United States and the western territories.
		Because he had spent two years in a free state and a free territory, Dred Scott, backed by abolitionists, sued for his freedom in 1846.
		Fascinating Fact: Dred Scott and his family were bought and freed after the Court's ruling.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/dredscott.html (291 words)

	Dred Scott Case. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1834, Dred Scott, a fl slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise.
		After Emerson’s death, Scott sued (1846) Emerson’s widow for freedom for himself and his family (he had two children) on the ground that residence in a free state and then in a free territory had ended his bondage.
		Emerson’s brother, was the legal administrator of her property and a resident of New York, the federal court accepted jurisdiction for the case on the basis of diversity of state citizenship.
	www.bartleby.com /65/dr/DredScot.html (439 words)

	Dred Scott v. Sandford: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.
		Abraham Lincoln wrote a speech examining the constitutional implications of the Dred Scott Case in December 1856.
		The Dred Scott opinion was reprinted by Horace Greeley and Co. in 1860, which included an abstract of the opinions of the other Supreme Court judges and a report from a Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly of New York.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html (477 words)

	Dred Scott: 1857
		Dred Scott was born in 1795 in Southampton County, Virginia.
		Scott fought for his freedom and won it in a Trial Court but the Supreme Court of Missouri overruled the decision in 1852.
		Whether Scott was a citizen of the state of Missouri and thus entitled to sue in the federal courts; 2.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/USA/DredScott.html (489 words)

	The Dred Scott Decision
		Dred Scott (pictured left) was a slave belonging to a surgeon in the
		By this time, the Dred Scott case had achieved notoriety in the stormy sectional controversy over slavery.
		Buchanan not only knew what the Court was about to decide in the Dred Scott case, it is fair to say that he had a hand in forging the Court majority that endorsed that decision.
	web.utk.edu /~scheb/dredscott.html (1591 words)

	Dred Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But Scott never made the claim while living in the free lands—perhaps because he was unaware of his rights at the time, or fearful of possible repercussions.
		The provisions of the Act of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise, were voided as a legislative act because the act exceeded the powers of Congress, insofar as it attempted to exclude slavery and impart freedom and citizenship to Black people in the northern part of the Louisiana cession.
		Because her second husband opposed slavery, Emerson returned Dred Scott and his family to his original owners, the Blow family, who granted him freedom less than nine months before he died from tuberculosis in September 1858.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dred_Scott (1071 words)

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	Dred Scott Decision
		The two trials of Dred Scott in 1847 and 1850 were the beginning of a complicated series of events which concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1857, and hastened the start of the Civil War.
		The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis' Courthouse.
		The courtroom where the Dred Scott cases were heard is no longer in existence.
	americancivilwar.com /colored/dred_scott.html (1919 words)

	American Prospect Online - ViewWeb
		Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil is one of the best and most fascinating works of constitutional theory to emerge in the past decade, and I say this even though most readers (including this one) are unlikely to agree with the counterfactual punch-line that concludes it.
		Dred Scott was a contested issue precisely because many Americans thought slavery was at least acceptable, and an overwhelming majority of Americans, North and South, agreed that African Americans were not members of the American political community.
		The claim that, with Dred Scott, the Supreme Court precipitated a national crisis by “imposing” a solution on Congress rather than allowing the democratic legislature to work its way to a compromise is almost universal conventional wisdom.
	www.prospect.org /web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12085 (1477 words)

	Dred Scott Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dred Scott, a slave, had been purchased by army surgeon John Emerson, a citizen of Missouri.
		Scott then ended up in the possession of John Sanford, a New York abolitionist, who assisted in taking his case to the federal courts since the matter now involved a dispute between the residents of different states.
		Dred Scott had no standing in the court system because fls, regardless of whether they were free or slave, were not and could not be citizens.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h88.html (608 words)

	Dred Scott Case — Infoplease.com
		In 1834, Dred Scott, a fl slave, personal servant to Dr. John Emerson, a U.S. army surgeon, was taken by his master from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and thence to Fort Snelling (now in Minnesota) in Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was prohibited by the
		Circumventing the Dred Scott decision: Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the citizenship of African Americans.
		Ducking Dred Scott: a response to Alexander and Schauer.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0816089.html (553 words)

	INTRODUCTION TO THE COURT OPINION ON THE DREDD SCOTT CASE
		Dred Scott's case holds a unique place in American constitutional history as an example of the Supreme Court trying to impose a judicial solution on a political problem.
		Scott, born a slave, had been taken by his master, an army surgeon, into the free portion of the Louisiana territory.
		The Court ruled that Scott, as a slave, could not exercise the prerogative of a free citizen to sue in federal court.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/21.htm (2074 words)

	Dred Scott case
		The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v.
		Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
		The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that fls "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html (306 words)

	Stephanie Dispatch for KIDS!
		Dred Scott was the "property" of a man who lived in the slave state of Missouri.
		Scott's new owner took him on duty with him to Illinois and Wisconsin - two places where slavery was banned.
		By this time, Dred Scott had a wife and children, and desperately wanted the freedom he had when he was in the North.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/120900kids/120900stephdredkids.html (519 words)

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