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Dred Scott v. Sandford, [a] 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
- Who Was Dred Scott?
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Chief Justice Roger Taney
- Dred Scott Wins His Freedom
- Dred Scott Decision: Impact on Civil War
- Sources
Dred Scott was born into slaveryaround 1799 in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1818, he moved with his owner Peter Blow to Alabama, then in 1830 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri—both slave states—where Peter ran a boarding house. After Blow died in 1832, army surgeon Dr. John Emerson purchased Scott and eventually took him to Illinois, a free state...
In April 1846, Dred and Harriet filed separate lawsuits for freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court against Irene Emerson based on two Missouri statutes. One statute allowed any person of any color to sue for wrongful enslavement. The other stated that any person taken to a free territory automatically became free and could not be re-enslaved upon r...
Roger Taneywas born into the southern aristocracy and became the fifth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Taney became best known for writing the final majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which said that all people of African descent, free or enslaved, were not United States citizens and therefore had no right to sue in feder...
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Dred Scott decision, Irene had married her second husband, Calvin Chaffee, a U.S. congressman and abolitionist. 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 Scot...
The Dred Scott Decision outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court’s ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories. The divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union and the creation of the Confederate States of America. The Emancipation Proclamation of Se...
Missouri State Archives: Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. Missouri Digital Heritage. Primary Documents in American History: Dred Scott v. Sandford. The Library of Congress. Roger B. Taney. United States Senate. The Dred Scott Case. National Park Service.
El Caso Dred Scott contra Sandford 1 (también conocido como El Caso Dred Scott) fue una demanda judicial, crucial en la historia de los Estados Unidos, resuelta por la Corte Suprema de dicho país en 1857, en el que se decidió privar a todo habitante de ascendencia africana, fueran esclavos o no, el derecho a la ciudadanía y se le quitó al Cong...
27 de may. de 2024 · Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was unconstitutional.
- Dred Scott was an enslaved person who accompanied his owner, an army physician, to postings in a free state (Illinois) and free territory (Wisconsi...
- The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an en...
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that Congress had exceeded its authority in the Missouri Compromise because it had no power...
- When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that the Missouri Compromise’s prohibition of slavery in territories was unconstitutio...
- Many constitutional scholars consider the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case—formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford—to be the wo...
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court.
Key facts related to the controversial 1857 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court known as the Dred Scott decision. The court rejected the bid by Scott, an enslaved African American, for emancipation and ruled that Congress had no power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories or areas that were not yet states.
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man.
