Dred Scott Impact On Slavery

Dred Scott impact of slavery

Dred Scott impacted the citizens of the United States because he fought for his freedom, he went to trial to sue for his freedom, he impacted the citizens of all African Americans throughout the United States. Scott’s case influenced the nomination of Abraham Lincoln to the Republican party. Lincoln reacted with disgust to the ruling and spurred to political actions. Lincoln said “A house divided into itself cannot stand.’...this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”( http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/impact.html) The case was known as the Dred Scott V. Sanford which impacted all African Americans throughout the U.S.

Dred Scott said he was a free man because

Scott lost his first trial but the judge gave him a second trial because evidence has been introduced, after all that happen three years later a jury decided Scott should be freed under the Missouri doctrine of “once free always free.” Still the court ruled that slaves had no kind of claim in freedom, that they were property not citizens. The Dred Scott case was one of the major reason of the American civil war. Peter Blow granted the Scott’s freedom, around 1857 Abolitionist and former slave acknowledge the importance of the Dred Scott Decision through speech, few months later he died of

They had two boys who later died in their infancy. Scott was born in Southampton Virginia, in his youth Scott was known as “sam”, later on he changed his name to Dred Scott. Scott was a slave his whole life he never had the opportunity to read, he wanted to sue for his freedom but had no money or had no idea how to read or write, the support of his friends helped the Scott’s through nearly eleven years of complex and disappointment. (http://thedredscottfoundation.org/dredscott.html )

Dred and his wife would not give up, they had help from people like the Blow family and other supporters, his case got moved to the highest court in the nation. Scott convinced Montgomery Blair to argue for Dred Scott and his family and that's how it became the famous Dred V. Sandford case. The United States supreme court declared that all blacks as well as free couldn't become citizens of the United States. The supreme court said he couldn't