Dred Scott

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As of November 2026, Dred Scott has been mentioned in one podcast episode on MeidasTouch (Feb 2026). Raised by a speaker to connect the protest location (Fort Snelling area) to slavery and U.S. constitutional history, invoking the Dred Scott case and slavery at/near Fort Snelling.

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