0
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in defendant John Sanford's favor, returning Dred Scott and his family to slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Opinion of the Court.
Parties
Dred Scott
John Sanford (alleged "owner" of Dred Scott; misspelled as Sandford in court records)
Other Important Individuals
Eliza Irene Sanford (Chaffee) (widow of Dr. Emerson and probable real "owner" of Dred Scott
Dr. Calvin Chaffee (Irene Sanford's second husband; abolitionist and member of Congress, arranged "ownership" of Scott transferred to Taylor Blow for manumission)
Taylor Blow (Son of Dred Scott's original "owner," who provided financial support for Scott's legal case(s) and freed Scott after the case)
Attorneys
Montgomery Blair, Alexander Field and David Hall (for Dred Scott)
Reverdy Johnson, Henry S. Geyer, and Hugh Garland (for John Sanford)
Supreme Court Majority
Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice
James Wayne
John Catron
Peter V. Daniel
Samuel Nelson
Robert Grier
John Campbell
Supreme Court Dissenting
John McLean
Benjamin R. Curtis
Dred Scott was a slave of a U.S. Army surgeon, John Emerson of Missouri, a state that permitted slavery. In 1834, Scott went with Emerson to live in Illinois, which prohibited slavery. They later lived in the Wisconsin Territory, which slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise. In 1838, Scott returned to Missouri with Emerson. Emerson died there in 1843, and three years later Scott sued the surgeon's wife for his freedom.
Scott based his lawsuit on the argument that his former residence in a free state and a free territory-Illinois and Wisconsin-made him a free man. A circuit court ruled in Scott's favor, but the Missouri Supreme Court later reversed the decision. Meanwhile, Scott had become legally regarded as the property of John F.A. Sanford (spelled Sandford in the U.S. Supreme Court records) of New York. At the conclusion of the Supreme Court case, the Blow family, who originally sold Scott to Dr. Emerson, purchased him from Emerson's widow and had him legally emancipated (manumission).
Case Citation:
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857)
For more information, see Related Questions, below.
Wiki User
∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoThe Chief Justice was the elderly Roger B. Taney - ironically he'd been an abolitionist as a young man.
But he'd become so reactionary that he gave his verdict according to how he thought the Founding Fathers would have viewed slavery in 1776.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What years did the Dred Scott decision take place prior to the Civil War?
The Dred Scott decision or Dred Scott v. Sandford, took place in 1857. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and Minnesota (which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory). Dred Scott lost the case when The United States Supreme Court ruled seven to two, on the grounds that he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States, and that therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.
What are some characteristics about Dred Scott?
What are some characteristics of Dred Scott
Missouri slave whose case before the supreme court upheld slavery?
Dred Scott.
Who was dred scoot?
The Dred Scott decision electrified the the nation. chief justice Roger B. tanry said the Dred Scott was still a slave.
What court case determind that slaves were not US citizens in the Civil War?
The slave Dred Scott. This was before the war - and one of the causes of it, because it divided the two sides further and raised the temperature of the debate.
In the 1850 Dred Scott case a Missouri jury ruled?
he doesnt know
What year was Dred Scott ruled a slave by the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford did not decide if Dred Scott was a slave or not, but that slaves (and their descendants) could not be counted as US citizens and had no right to sue in court.
What did the judges decide in the Dred Scott case?
to oppose dred scott.
What were the origins of the Dred Scott case?
The origins of the Dred Scott case are due to the I.C.U.P organization
What case determined that African American slaves were not citizens?
dred scott...a+
The Dred Scott case ruled that?
slave owners had been deprived of property without due process of law
Which Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property and therefore had no legal rights?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What was dred scott case about?
Dred Scott sued his owners for freedom when they took him to the Northern states. The Supreme Court ruled that he did not have the right to sue whether he was a slave or free. That decision was overturned nine years later.
Who was the slave that sued for his freedom in the case Dred Scott vs Sandford?
Dred Scott
Which Supreme Court case raised the issue of a black slave who lived in a free state and questioned whether slaves were free once they set foot upon Northern soil?
This Supreme Court decision is known as the in popular vernacular as the Dred Scott Case of 1857. Among other matters it ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. It ruled that Dred Scott being a slave had no standing in a US Court of Law. It also ruled that Dred Scott could never be a citizen because Scott was a Negro.
Why were many southerners pleased by the courts decision in the dread Scott case?
Because the court ruled that Dred Scott was African American and therefore had no right to sue
What was the effect of the dred Scott. Case?
The Dred Scott case effected the nation.It effect the nation by causing it to split the nation.
