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He was successful only in the sense that he was eventually freed, along with all the others, as a result of the Civil War.

But iit was his (unnecessary) bid for freedom that raised the temperature of the slavery debate and helped to start the war in the first place.

Dred Scott's freedom, weighed against 600,000 dead American soldiers?

It is hard to view Scott as the virtuous victim.

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