Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as ...

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 ...

Before Dred Scott draws on the freedom suits filed in the St Louis Circuit Court to construct a groundbreaking history of slavery and legal culture within the American Confluence, a vast region where ...