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Dred Scott was born a slave in Virgina between 1795-1800
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Grew up with his mother.
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He was taken from his home to Missouri purchased by an Army Major John Emerson Stationed outside St. Louis
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Emerson let him marry which slaves were not allowed to have outside contact.
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In 1837 the army ordered Emerson to Jefferson Barracks Military Post. Which he left Scott & Scott’s wife behind. Soon after Scott was reassingned to to Fort Jessup, Louisana.
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Which Emersons wife had lived. There she sold him out after her husbands death. In 1853 he tried to sue in the federal supreme court.
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Then the Supreme Courts Decision was handed down on March 6, 1857 the Court first had to decide whether it had jurisdiction.