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Dred Scott   /drɛd skɑt/   Listen
Dred Scott

noun
1.
United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858).  Synonym: Scott.





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"Dred Scott" Quotes from Famous Books



... the United States decided in a fugitive-slave case, one Dred Scott, that no negro slave could be any State citizen; that neither Congress nor a territorial organization can exclude slavery; that the United States courts would not decide whether a slave in a free State becomes free, but left that to the slave-holding State courts. Lincoln, in debate ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams


Words linked to "Dred Scott" :   slave, Scott


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