The Dred Scott Case: A Slave's Case for Freedom and Citizenship

In 1820, the Missouri compromise plan was promulgated between the anti-slavery area of ​​the US Congress and the slavery defense area. In addition to the proposed border of Missouri State (compromise of Missouri state), the territory of Louisiana prohibits slavery on the north side of the north parallel line 36 ° 30 '. Many slaves are trying to escape from their farm to the state of free territory. (Runaway Slave) "African-American dread Scott was born in Virginia in the 19th century." Scott was sold to Virginia farmer Peter Brau.

Summary of Dred Scott's decision: Dred Scott is a slave who seeks freedom through American legal system. In 1857, the ruling of the US Supreme Court's Dread Scott rejected his request and judged that there were no blacks. With this decision, Missouri's 1820 compromise was also invalidated and slavery restricted in certain US territories. The northern abolitionists were angry. The Dred Scott incident became a place for their meeting and contributed to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

In 1846, a slave who lived in St. Louis, Dread Scott appealed him and his family for liberty in a Missouri court. Eleven years later, the incident reached the Supreme Court of Dred Scott v. Sandford and the US Supreme Court dismissed Freedom's claim in 7-2 votes of Scott. The verdict had personal influence on Scott and his family, but the bill had legal, political, social and economic impacts several years before the Civil War.

This was then the most outrageous at the time, and now Dred Scott's decision (Dread Scott v. Sandford, 1857). It was actually rejected by the US Supreme Court. The reason is black and there is no legal status as a prosecutor as well as a slave - they are not those who need to be recognized by federal law. Of course this seems to be in violation of the Constitution which has always called slaves "person". As an objection to the prosecution of slavery freedom, this also violates the principles of Roman law.