Black History Month peaks in Huntsville over the next several days with free performances on the life and legacy of Dred Scott, the former Madison County slave whose fight for freedom after leaving Alabama made American history.
Scott is known for suing to win his freedom after traveling into American states and territories where slavery was outlawed. He appealed a court ruling against him and eventually lost in a sweeping 1857 Supreme Court decision that outraged abolitionists and many white Americans and political leaders. Historians agree that the ruling further divided the nation over slavery, raised the temperature on the issue and moved America closer to the Civil War.
The plantation where Scott lived is on the west side of Huntsville where predominantly Black Oakwood University sits today. It is a short drive today to downtown Huntsville but it would have been miles from the young city sitting around the Big Spring. Oakwood is the current owner of most of the former plantation and Oakwood leads the city’s modern celebration of his life and legacy.
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