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Why did Dredd scott take a case up to the supreme court

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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 finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. After some fighting about this decision, in the end Dred Scott remained a slave.

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