Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... In an 1850 retrial, the the St Louis circuit court ruled that Scott and his family were free. Two years later the Missouri Supreme Court ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children ... States for [Missouri], to assert the title of himself and his family to freedom. The declaration is . . . that he and the ...

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856 ...