Dred Scott Court Cases

Dred Scott an enslaved man from Missouri. After the death of his first master – Peter Blow, Dred Scott was sold for John Emerson was an army surgeon. The second owned took him into Illinois and Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by Missouri Compromise 1820. In 1836, Dred Scott got married to Harriett Robinson was also a slave. They had four children: two boys died infancy and two girls. In 1843, John Emerson pass away so Emerson’s wife became the master of Dred Scott and his family. In 1846, Scott sued for his freedom because he had resided in a Free State and free territory for 14 years. At the St. Louis’ Old Courthouse, the first trial of the Dred Scott case was brought to judge but he lost. However, in 1850, the second trial declared he and his family should …show more content…
Taney ruled that slave was not a citizen of the American so they had no right to bring their any disputes to the federal courts. Furthermore, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional because slave was personal property so Scott had never been free. The court also made a decision that the slavery could not be banned or deprived in the United State. All the decision to the Dred Scott case created a strong react for the American Public and antislavery groups because they feared that slavery would increase uncontrolled. These decision also damaged to the national unity especially the Northern and Southern. The South supported for slavery, but the North against slavery. The Northerners realized that they could never had opportunity again to stop slavery, so this fear day by day growing up in the North shaped the germ of the American Civil War. In addition, the decision also became profoundly influential in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Republican Party and his next election, this led to the South's secession from the Union. Back to Dred Scott, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, Dred Scott and his family were freedom by helped from Peter Blow's