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because he onced lived in areas of the north where slavery was prohibited
He was taken to the free state of Illinois and lived there for many years.
Dred Scot's master had taken him to a free territory.
Dred Scott was a slave who, after moving to a free territory, lived there for four years before suing for his freedom in 1846. His case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, where the ruling stated that enslaved people were not entitled to freedom even if they resided in free territories.
Scott argued he was a free man because he lived where slavery was illegal. He wasn't a free man for two reasons. One, Scott has no right to sue a federal government court because African Americans were not citizens. Two, Taney, said; merely living in free territory did not make an enslaved person free.
Dred Scott believed he should be free because he had lived in free states and territories where slavery was illegal, which he argued should have conferred freedom upon him. He sued for his freedom based on the legal principle of once free, always free, but ultimately lost the case in a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Free Territory ended in 1921.
Dred Scott, a slave who lived in a free territory for four years, sued for his freedom. The case went to the US Supreme Court, which ruled against him in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857. This decision further entrenched the institution of slavery in the United States.
Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he had lived in states and territories where slavery was prohibited, and he believed that this should have made him a free man. He argued that his time in free territories had legally made him a free person.
That all the territory acquired by the USA from Mexico should be free soil.
Free Territory of Trieste was created in 1947.