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Dred Scott was a runaway slave who fled to the free state of Illinois. He moved back to a slave state and sued for his freedom on the basis that he was now free after escaping slavery. He lost the case because slaves were seen as property, which the federal government was not allowed to infringe upon according to the constitution.

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