Personal Narrative: I Am A Slave

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I am an enslaved black man. My owner is a white army surgeon from Missouri his name is Dr. John Emerson. John and I have just left to go to Illinois where slavery is illegal. I have just sued for my freedom from John Emerson’s wife. After a stressful ten years in court, I finally reached the United States supreme court.I am here because I use to live in different places in the North and at these areas slavery was illegal and I think that I should not be free. So, after the longest time the court finally said that I am still a slave because I am a black man and blacks are not citizens of the United States.Therefore, I am still a slave. Taney says that there should not be no free territory and he says that the citizens can choose where they

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