Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

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Signs for the Philadelphia street previously named after Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, author of the infamous "Dred Scott" ...

Dred Scott v. Sandford reached the high tribunal, on appeal, early in 1856. The Court was then made up, along with Chief Justice Taney from Maryland, of four other Southern Justices — Campbell ...

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 group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of the US Civil War over the issue of slavery, stating that enslaved ...