Imagine that day, all eyes on you in the courtroom. You have been through so much and you finally think you are going to be freed. Then you are told that you don’t even have a right to a trial because you aren’t a citizen. The anger you must feel to do so much and just be shut down like it was nothing. This is how Dred Scott must have felt when the Supreme Court ruled against him. Even though slavery was seen as an evil, The Dred Scott decision stated that no slave can be a citizen, they cannot have their own freedoms and must be seen as just a slave in the country no matter what state their master takes them to, free or slaves.
Dred Scott was born into slavery on 1799, to the Peter Blow family in Virginia (“The Life of Dred …show more content…
Harriet and Dred later had two children who were named Eliza and Lizzie (“Dred Scott Timeline”). In 1842 The Scott family then moved back to St. Louis with Dr. Emerson and his new wife (“Early Life”). When John Emerson died in 1843, Dred and Harriet, along with their children were hired by Mrs. Emerson to work for different families in St. Louis (“Early Life”). Then three years after Dr. Emerson died, Dred Scott tried to make a deal with Eliza Emerson who was the wife of Dr. Emerson and the deal was that if he paid her $300, she would then set them free (“Dred Scott's Fight for …show more content…
Also that they cannot have their own freedoms and must be seen as just a slave in the country no matter what state their master takes them to, free or slaves. It was something that no one truly thought it would have defied. That is also why he was so much more angered by the conclusion of this case. To know that no matter what he will always be considered a slave and nothing greater in this country. It was this Supreme Court Decision which pushed the abolitionist in the North to push even more for the end of slavery. This led to the Civil
Dred Scott was born into slavery on 1799, to the Peter Blow family in Virginia (“The Life of Dred …show more content…
Harriet and Dred later had two children who were named Eliza and Lizzie (“Dred Scott Timeline”). In 1842 The Scott family then moved back to St. Louis with Dr. Emerson and his new wife (“Early Life”). When John Emerson died in 1843, Dred and Harriet, along with their children were hired by Mrs. Emerson to work for different families in St. Louis (“Early Life”). Then three years after Dr. Emerson died, Dred Scott tried to make a deal with Eliza Emerson who was the wife of Dr. Emerson and the deal was that if he paid her $300, she would then set them free (“Dred Scott's Fight for …show more content…
Also that they cannot have their own freedoms and must be seen as just a slave in the country no matter what state their master takes them to, free or slaves. It was something that no one truly thought it would have defied. That is also why he was so much more angered by the conclusion of this case. To know that no matter what he will always be considered a slave and nothing greater in this country. It was this Supreme Court Decision which pushed the abolitionist in the North to push even more for the end of slavery. This led to the Civil