Dred Scott

Dred Scott was born in sometime around the turn of the century, often fixed at 1795, in Southampton County, Virginia. In 1836, Scott fell in love with a slave of another army doctor, 19-year-old Harriett Robinson, and her ownership was transferred over to Dr. Emerson when they were wed. Dred Scott and his family stayed in St. Louis. Dred Scott is buried in the Calvary Cemetery in St. In 1997, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet were admitted to the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Dred Scott made history by launching a legal battle to gain his freedom. In December 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech, foreshadowing the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, examining the constitutional implications of the Dred Scott Case. On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford. The Dred Scott decision sparked outrage in the northern states and glee in the south—the growing schism made civil war inevitable..