The Dred Scott Decision was one of the most important cases ever in the United States and was heard in St. Louis’ Old Courthouse. The two trials of Dred Scott in the years 1847 and 1850 were just the very start of a complicated series of multiple events and hastened the beginning of the Civil War. Dred Scott spent nearly his entire life as a slave, and was also illiterate. He lived with his owner in a free state before his return to the slave states of Missouri. March 1857, was the date where Dred fought for his freedom. He argued that his time spent in many locations entitled him to emancipation. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who was a supporter of slavery, disagreed with his argument. The court decided that day that no black, free or slave,
