FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the nation’s history.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... In an 1850 retrial, the the St Louis circuit court ruled that Scott and his family were free. Two years later the Missouri Supreme Court ...

Twitted on all sides for his wife’s ownership of slaves, Chaffee soon fixed up a technical transfer of the Dred Scott family to his wife’s New York brother, John Sandford, who thus became the ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children ... States for [Missouri], to assert the title of himself and his family to freedom. The declaration is . . . that he and the ...