After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state ... Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

Newtown Historical Society hosted an open house on Sunday, May 4, and a lecture titled “the Dred Scott Decision of 1857” on ...

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Dred and Harriet Scott’s lawsuit for freedom, eventually won at the lower court in St. Louis but struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in in an 1857 decision that is considered one of its worst.

The Old Courthouse was the site of several landmark cases, including the Dred Scott case that challenged slavery, and Virginia Minor’s fight for women’s voting rights. RELATED: St. Louisan's ...