biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1795–c.1858)
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| biography:
| Slave, born in Southampton Co, Virginia, USA. He made legal and constitutional history in the Dred Scott Case (1848–57), which sought to obtain his freedom on the ground that his master took him from Missouri (a slave state) to Illinois (a free state). The Supreme Court ruled against him, but the decision served to increase anti-slavery agitation in the North. He was soon emancipated, and became a hotel porter in St Louis, MO. |
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