SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
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Dred Scott could not read or write.
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Peter Blow was Scott’s owner.
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Dred Scott moved a lot because they had no choice.
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Dred Scott believed he and his family should be set free because they lived in a free state.
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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: -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-3: -What did the Court rule about Dred Scott? They ruled that African Americans, whether they were slaves or had ancestors who were slaves, had no legal view in court. They felt that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. In the eyes of the court, Dred Scott had no legal right to request his freedom.