DRED SCOTT VS SANFORD 1857

WHAT HAPPENED?

Dred Scott was a slave who had lived on the Illinois/Wisconsin Territory for 5 years and, backed by interested abolitionists, sued for freedom on the basis that he had been living on free soil for so long.

The North supported him the whole way through.

NORTH

SOUTH

Fought to get him to remain property, and won. (But later he became free anyway)