n missouri, the supreme court had to make a decision on the status of am african american man named Dred Scott. Dred was taken out of his slave state by his owner where he was declared a free man by his owner, he was then taken into a state in which slavery was permitted and was told by his owner that he was now a slave. He offered three hundred dollars to be freed but the widowed owner refused. Both he and his wife Harriet filed two separate Lawsuits against his owner in hopes that the saying “once free, always free” from the case of Winny V. Whitesides would apply in his situation and declare him a free man. His first attempt at a trial was thrown out as he was not able to prove that mrs.emerson owned him and his wife. In the retrial of 1850,
