[DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott Case - Black History - HISTORY.com [PAR] In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch supporter of slavery, ... 
This convoluted case (1857), both a cause and an effect of sectional conflict, ... 
emancipated by his owner just three months after the Supreme Court denied 
them their ... John Emerson, who had bought him from the Peter Blow family of St. 
Louis. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott - PBS [PAR] Part 2: 1750-1805 ... Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. 
Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was ... 
ruled that the federal government did not have the power to prohibit slavery ... In 
an 1850 retrial, the the St Louis circuit court ruled that Scott and his family were 
free. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott - Wikipedia [PAR] Dred Scott (c. 1799  September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American 
man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his 
wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, 
popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision". ... The United States Supreme 
Court decided 72 against Scott, finding that... [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott | HistoryNet [PAR] The 1857 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case 
denied ... to Alabama and then, in 1830, to St. Louis, Missouri, taking his slaves 
with him. ... In an 1850 retrial, the couple were granted their freedom, only to have 
it .... Taney had freed his own slaves and, after joining the Supreme Court, voted 
to... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri Digital Heritage: Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857 [PAR] Dred Scott traveled with him and, therefore, resided in areas where slavery ... to 
such areas were freed-even if they returned to the slave state of Missouri. ... His 
parents may have been the property of Peter Blow, or Blow may have .... against 
Irene Emerson in the St. Louis Circuit Court to obtain their freedom from slavery. [DOC] [TLE] On This Day: Supreme Court Rules Against Dred Scott [PAR] On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, a slave who 
sued for freedom ... Three years later, after unsuccessfully trying to buy his 
freedom, Scott sued for his ... announced to a packed courtroom that the court 
had decided 7-2 against Dred Scott. .... Dred Scott and his family were freed on 
May 26, 1857. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857 [PAR] This case defined whether a slave should be considered a person protected by ... 
1843, Scott sued Emerson's widow for his freedom in the Missouri Supreme 
Court, ... As for Dred Scott, two months after the Supreme Court's decision, 
Emerson's widow sold Scott and his family to the Blow family, who freed them in 
May of 1857. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com [PAR] Apr 2, 2014 ... His case made it to the Supreme Court (Dred Scott v. ... His parents were slaves, 
but it is uncertain whether the Blow family owned them at his... [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott, the Dred Scott Case, & the Missouri Compromise [PAR] Originally his master took him from Missouri (a slave state) to Illinois (a free state). 
... In Missouri, after a second trial, the Missouri District Court ruled in Scott's ... 
Taking eleven years to be heard, in May 1857, Supreme Court Justice Roger B. 
... concerning slaves, and Northerners were fearful that a decision against Scott... [DOC] [TLE] Our Documents - Transcript of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) [PAR] 2. If, therefore, the facts he states do not give him or his family a right to freedom, 
... It is often the duty of this court, after having decided that a particular decision of 
.... of Illinois, and held him there as a slave until the month of April or May, 1836, 
.... to the jurisdiction has been ruled against him, does or does

Question: In May 1857, 2 months after the Supreme Court ruled against him, this slave & his family were freed
Answer: Dred Scott