USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to their residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited. The odds were in their favor.

Detailed explanation-2: -Born in Southampton, Virginia, around 1800, Dred Scott was a slave of Peter Blow. With Blow and the rest of his family, Scott migrated to the Midwest, arriving in St. Louis in 1830. Scott was eventually sold to army doctor John Emerson, with whom he would go to Illinois and then into the Wisconsin Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who was Dred Scott? Dred Scott was an enslaved person who accompanied his owner, an army physician, to postings in a free state (Illinois) and free territory (Wisconsin) before returning with him to the slave state of Missouri. In 1846 Scott and his wife, aided by antislavery lawyers, sued for their freedom in a St.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

Detailed explanation-5: -On May 26, 1857, Dred and Harriet Scott appeared in the St. Louis Circuit Court and were formally freed; Judge Alexander Hamilton approved the papers.