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Dred Scott sues at the Old Courthouse
St. Louis, Missouri
Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scott and his wife Harriet filed here for freedom on the grounds that they had been held in free territory. Eleven years later the Supreme Court answered that no Black person could be a citizen at all, a decision so extreme it helped make the war inevitable.
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