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Who Was Dred Scott?
Dred Scott was born into slavery around 1799 in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1818, he moved with his owner Peter Blow to Alabama, then in 1830 he moved to St.
Louis, Missouri—both slave states—where Peter ran a boarding house.
After Blow died in 1832, army surgeon Dr. John Emerson purchased Scott and eventually took him to Illinois, a free state, and then to Fort Snelling in Wisconsin Territory where the Missouri Compromise had outlawed slavery.
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There, Scott married Harriet Robinson, also enslaved, in a rare civil ceremony; her owner transferred ownership of Harriet to Emerson.
In late 1837, Emerson returned to St. Louis but left Dred and Harriet Scott behind and hired them out.
Emerson then moved to Louisiana, a slave state, where he met and married Eliza (Irene) Sandford in February 1838; Dred Scott soon joined them.
Did you know? Dred Scott, along with several members of his family, was formally emancipated by his owner just three months after the Su