SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dred Scott was born into slavery around 1799 in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1818, he moved with his owner Peter Blow to Alabama, then in 1830 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri-both slave states-where Peter ran a boarding house.
Detailed explanation-2: -Facts of the case 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-3: -He was born in Virginia around 1799, and was the property, as his parents had been, of the Peter Blow family. He had spent his entire life as a slave, and never got the opportunity to learn to read. Dred Scott moved to St. Louis with the Blows in 1830, but was soon sold due to Blow’s financial problems.