SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
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They Were Let Free
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Mrs. Emerson Left Them Enslaved With Her Brother, John F.A. Sanford
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They Lived Happily Ever After
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They Were Killed
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-3: -Later, in 1843, Dr. Emerson died. Now the property of the widow Emerson, she hired out Dred, Harriet and the children to other families. In 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott turned to the courts to gain their freedom, citing their years of residence in free states.