Dred Scott: African-American plaintiff in freedom suit (c.1799–1858)
Dred Scott (1799 – September 17, 1858) was a slave in the United States of America who took legal action to get his freedom in the Dred Scott v.
Sandford">Dred Scott v. Sanford case. His case was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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Many people were angry at the decision, and slavery became one of the main issues in the American Civil War a few years later. Slavery was ended after the Confederate States of America surrendered.
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