According to geneological records and the official Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, Dred and Harriet Scott had two sons who died in infancy (dates unknown) and two little girls, Eliza, born in 1838,...
Unfortunately, at the time the Dred Scott decision was made (1857), there were no constitutional provisions specifically protecting African-Americans, who were wrongly viewed as property rather than...
The ruling of the Dred Scott case was that he was still a slave in a free state. The supreme court questioned his right of being an African-American and coming to the supreme court when he was, as I...
(1857) There were 3 thing said that day that would chage the way people looked at slavery:
1 The court said that dread Scott had no right to sue because the framers of the Constitution (founding...