USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The case was finally heard on January 12, 1850, with Judge Alexander Hamilton presiding. The attorneys for Dred Scott were Field and Hall, who had represented him in the Missouri Supreme Court.

Detailed explanation-2: -Who was Dred Scott? Dred Scott was an enslaved person who accompanied his owner, an army physician, to postings in a free state (Illinois) and free territory (Wisconsin) before returning with him to the slave state of Missouri. In 1846 Scott and his wife, aided by antislavery lawyers, sued for their freedom in a St.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Dread Scott is a visual artist whose works is exhibited across the US and internationally. In 1989, his art became the center of national controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. President G.H.W.