Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. The ruling led to the Civil War, which ultimately resulted in the ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to ... Emerson moved to a fort in the Wisconsin Territory, taking Scott along. While there, Scott met and married Harriet Robinson, a slave owned by a local justice ...

Yet, for all the familiarity of its name and of the bare fact that it bestowed judicial blessing on the institution of slavery, the full story of the Dred Scott case is not widely known ...

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. A huge piece of history sits right in downtown St. Louis, and even more ...