may 23, 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dred Scott was a slave who lived in the free state of Illinois. Scott claimed that since he resided in a free state, that he should be a free man. He won his suit in a lower court but was then repealed by the Missouri supreme court.
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