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No, Dred Scott was the slave whose master took him into free soil and then back into slave country - a bad, fateful move.

It is not known why Scott did not apply for his freedom while on free soil, when it would have been granted automatically. Instead he applied for it on slave soil, which made his status debatable.

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, whose controversial findings raised the temperature of the debate, and brought war a step closer.

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