Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Slave's Fight for Freedom | Janice Rogers Brown

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

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It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans could never be citizens. Janice Rogers Brown, former California Supreme Court Justice, explores Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)—the infamous Supreme Court decision on slavery and citizenship that is widely considered the lowest point in the Court’s history and a key factor leading to the American Civil War. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	By common consensus, Dred Scott v. Sanford is the most infamous decision in Supreme Court history.
0:39.4	Ironically, it also may be the most significant decision in Supreme Court history.
0:44.8	Why? Because it almost destroyed the Union. Here's what happened. In 1846, Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom. Scott had been born into slavery in Virginia,
0:58.3	but during the 1830s, he traveled with his owner, John Emerson, an army doctor, to Illinois and the
1:05.3	Wisconsin Territory, both of which had banned slavery. When Emerson died in 1843, his widow, Irene Sanford, inherited Scott.
1:15.6	In 1846, Scott sought to buy his freedom from Sanford, offering her $300. She refused.
1:23.8	Scott then turned to the legal system filing a lawsuit against her in a St. Louis Missouri court.
1:29.9	He had a strong case.
1:31.6	It was not uncommon for slaves to claim that once they entered a free state, they were free,
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