SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
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picked cotton
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taught school
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servant work ____ like a butler
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foreman ____ ran a group of other slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The emancipation episode of Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, ocurred at the fort. They were married and had two enslaved children at Fort Snelling from 1836 to 1840. In 1843 he sued for his family’s freedom for illegally being indentured in free territory. Dred Scott v.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because of the controversy surrounding the case, Mrs. Emerson returned Dred Scott and his wife to their previous owners, who granted them their freedom in May 1857. Dred Scott found work as a porter in a local hotel, and passed away only a little over a year after he was granted his freedom on September 17, 1858.
Detailed explanation-3: -The journey and residence at Fort Snelling was Dred Scott’s second chance to sue for freedom. Now he was resident in a territory that was governed by the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which prohibited slavery north of 36° 30’ except within the boundaries of the state of Missouri.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dred Scott served Dr. Emerson for the next twelve years, traveling with him to other assigned posts in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and at Fort Snelling in what became Minnesota-all places where slavery was prohibited.