Dred Scot Case

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had an impact on both the highest court of the land and the history of the United States Supreme Court decisions.
In the later 1700’s to 1863, slavery was an intricate part of the South. Slaves were needed for plantation work like planting, caring for, and harvesting crops to maintaining the land. After Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, more slaves were needed to keep up with the increased cotton production. In the South their belief was African-Americans were property. Slavery also represented economic, social and political power in the South On the other hand, the North’s economy was based on industry and manufacturing powered by European immigrants. They believed slavery was wrong and inhumane and African-Americans are just as human as everybody else. Southerners believed slavery was justified because they believed they gave slaves shelter, it and it was mentioned in the constitution (3/5th compromise) therefore making it legal. Many slaves were unhappy with their ...

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1807 (and based on similar statutes in most Southern states), and reinforced in a Missouri state law written in 1824, under which any person held in bondage could petition the local court for permission to sue their enslaver for freedom. ("Missouri Digital Heritage") The petition had to have a legal basis, for instance, that the enslaved person had been emancipated and had papers and witnesses to prove it; or that they had descended in the maternal line from a free woman of color. Missouri bordered several states and territories that prohibited slavery. They sued for their freedom in St. Louis based on the fact that they had lived for a time in Illinois, where slavery was prohibited, ...

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