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• Includes the entire words of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Judge justices.
• Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its own effect on future civil rights cases.

"The question is merely this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community made and brought into lifetime by the Constitution of america, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the resident? " (Dred Scott v. Sanford) Dred Scott was an unlikely candidate to be the impetus and rallying cry of the brand-new political get together in the mid-19th century. Delivered into slavery in Virginia as Sam Scott, the young slave needed the name of his more mature brother, Dred, after Dred's fatality. He migrated throughout Southern slave state governments as property of the Blow family until he was sold to US Military doctor John Emerson in St. Louis, Missouri. Emerson's payment in the army eventually brought him to the Wisconsin Place in 1836, which was north of the lines proven by the Missouri Bargain of 1820 and was thus free territory where slavery was outlawed. Naturally Emerson brought his slaves along with him, and Dred Scott resided for a protracted time period in free territory, his slave status being truly a violation of the Missouri Bargain, the Northwest Ordinance, and the Wisconsin Enabling Act. By 1840 Dred Scott got committed another slave of Emerson's, called Harriet, and the couple had a child. Desperate to get rid of the yoke of slavery but struggling to buy his family's independence, Scott sued for his independence in Missouri, arguing that once he had entered free territory he could no more be a slave.