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Why did dred scott believe he was free frorn enslavement? ​

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He lived in a free territory.

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Answer:

jurisdictions

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he Scotts claimed that they should be granted their 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.

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