what happened to dred scott after the dred scott case???

Question

it turned out dred scott could not sue for his freedom because he was not a citizen and congress could not outlaw slavery in any part of the united states. so what happend to him after the case???

Answer 1

"After the ruling, Scott was returned as property to the widow [Irene] Emerson. In 1857 [in February, before the decision was even announced], she remarried. Because her second husband opposed slavery, Emerson returned Dred Scott and his family to rhis original owners, the Blow family, who granted him freedom less than a year and a half before he died from tuberculosis in September 1858."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott

NOTE: The PBS dates are curiously mistaken. Scott was freed on May 26, 1857,and died on September 17, 1858.

"On May 26, 1857, Dred and [his wife] Harriet Scott appeared in the St. Louis Circuit Court and were formally freed; Judge Alexander Hamilton approved the papers. Dred Scott took a job as a porter at Barnum's Hotel at Second and Walnut streets in St. Louis; he became a sort of celebrity there. The family lived off Carr Street in the city, where Harriet took in laundry, which Scott delivered when he was not working at the hotel. Dred Scott did not live to enjoy his free status very long; on September 17, 1858, he died of tuberculosis."

Note that Chaffee was not able to free Scott directly. He HAD to transfer ownership to the Blow family because, by Missouri state law, a slave could ONLY be freed by a citizen of that state.

For more details see:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/scott/scott.asp

Answer 2

He remained a slave until he and his wife were purchased by the son's of Peter Blow, the original owner of Scott. They then set him free and he died 9 months later as a free man.

Answer 3

I can't really remember