드레드 스콧

소개

드레드 스콧(Dred Scott, 1799년경 ~ 1858년 9월 17일)은 미국의 흑인 노예로 법률 체계를 통하여 자신의 해방을 위하여 이기는 데 시도한 것으로 유명하다. 드레드 스콧 대 샌드퍼드 사건으로 알려진 그의 사건은 대법원에까지 갔다.

Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". The Scotts claimed they should be granted freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal, and laws in those jurisdictions said that slaveholders gave up their rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period.