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the Dred Scott Case

the Dred Scott Case [the Dred Scott Case] BrE NAmE (alsothe Dred Scott decision)BrE NAmE
a US ↑Supreme Court decision in 1857 that a slave was not a citizen and could not begin a legal case against anyone. Dred Scott was a slave who wanted a court to say he was free because his owner took him to a free state. The Supreme Court also decided that ↑Congress had no power to prevent ↑slavery in new states. The case divided the nation and led indirectly to the Civil War.