Additional Resources

The original Dred Scott case file is located in the Office of the St. Louis Circuit Clerk.

• Background of slave freedom suits in Missouri
• Conservation of the Dred Scott Papers at the Missouri State Archives
• Dred Scott Decision at the Jefferson Expansion Memorial web site.
• Field Family history. Roswell Martin Field served as the attorney for the slaves Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzy, when they brought action in federal court for their freedom.
• Judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford, March 6, 1857
• Missouri's Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857 at the Missouri State Archives
• Old Courthouse at the Jefferson Expansion Memorial
• St Louis Court Records Project
• Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) (USSC+) U.S. Supreme Court Collection at the Legal Information Institute
• Link to Case Files of other Freedom Suits
• Link to Case Files of the Lewis and Clark Suits
• Link to Probate Estate Files of William Clark
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