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The slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court was Solomon Northrup, Dred Scott, Roger Taney.

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Dred Scott. He 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 in 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision".
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