SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
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Irene married an abolitionist and set him free
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Irene married an abolitionist and sold him back to the Blows
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Irene died and her brother gave him his freedom
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Dred Scott escaped and ran back to the Blows
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Detailed explanation-1: -Upset upon learning his wife still owned the most infamous slave of the time, he sold Scott and his family to Taylor Blow, the son of Peter Blow, Scott’s original owner. Taylor freed Scott and his family on May 26, 1857.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dred Scott did, in fact, get his freedom, but not through the courts. After he and his wife were later bought by the Blow family (who had sold Scott to Emerson in the first place), they were freed in 1857. Scott died of tuberculosis in St. Louis the following year.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their owner-by then Taylor Blow-freed them on May 26, 1857. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis less than a year later. Harriet Robinson Scott remained in St. Louis as a free woman.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the “Dred Scott decision".
Detailed explanation-5: -The decision of Scott v. Sandford, considered by many legal scholars to be the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court, was overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the United States.