Did Dred Scott win his freedom?

Answer 1

Dred Scott v. Sandford*, 60 US 393 (1857)

No. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a pro-slavery Southerner appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson, wrote the opinion for the Court. In the Opinion of the Court, Taney said slaves and descendants of slaves could never be citizens of the United States or, by extension, of the individual states. This decision revoked African-Americans' ability to sue for their freedom in the state courts.

The Supreme Court also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because it deprived slave-owners of their property in violation of the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause and Due Process Clause.

Although Scott lost his case, Taylor Blow, son of Scott's earlier owner, Peter Blow, bought the family and emancipated them in May 1857.

Congress and the states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, on December 6, 1865.


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Answer 2

He lost it.

But it was not his loss of the case that caused the controversy.

It was the highly provocative reasons given for that verdict that inflamed the debate.

Answer 3

no they didn't let him fight for his freedom