State Historical Society of Missouri image Roswell Field, a lawyer in St. Louis who took Dred and Harriet Scott's case to U.S. District Court here and prepared their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

While living in the home, Roswell became the key attorney in the Dred and Harriet Scott Freedom Suit. Roswell formed a legal strategy that got the case to a federal court.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports Dred Scott descendant Lynne Jackson and Charlie Taney, a descendant of Chief Justice Roger Taney, spoke last week at the Virginia Union University.

which will enable the reader to know what the Supreme Court has decided in that important case, far more readily and clearly than he can learn from the official report itsef.

Opinion: In effect, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened a "Pandora's box." Just like the Supreme Court did in deciding the fate ...

ST. LOUIS -- A marble tombstone found at a construction site here once marked the grave of an attorney who represented Dred Scott, a Missouri-born slave whose case for freedom helped push the ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. Associate Justice McLEAN proceeded to express his views in the case of DRED SCOTT VS. SANFORD.

At the Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum are special exhibits on the Dred Scott case. An exhibit also shows the differences in the lives of white and black children during slavery.

Dred Scott, American, ca 1800 - 1858 Description A first edition, octavo volume of The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court with sewn self-wrappers. The title and publishing ...

The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories. The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford.