SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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St. Louis
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Springfield
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Wisconsin
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Illinois
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Detailed explanation-1: -Only after Emerson’s death in 1843, after Emerson’s widow hired Scott out to an army captain, did Scott seek freedom for himself and his wife. First he offered to buy his freedom from Mrs. Emerson–then living in St. Louis–for $300.
Detailed explanation-2: -Irene Emerson had remarried in 1850. Her new husband, Massachusetts Congressman Calvin Chaffee, was anti-slavery. Following Taney’s ruling, the now-Mrs. Calvin Chaffee, took possession of Dred, Harriett and their two daughters and either sold or simply returned the family to the Blows.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sometime in 1849 or 1850, Irene Emerson moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, and married Dr. Calvin C. Chaffee in November 1850. Chaffee, an abolitionist apparently unaware of his wife’s involvement in a slave freedom suit, was elected to the United States Congress shortly after his marriage to Irene Emerson.