The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

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that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after ... But the lawsuit grew into a legal case lasting over a decade, with ...

They had a case, a case before a single vote was counted ... in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme ...