Dred Scott: A Landmark Case Explained

Alright—let’s talk about the case that dropped one of the worst updates in U.S.

history: Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857. Picture this: you’re

a villager who’s been living in a peaceful Minecraft biome—no pillagers, no raids—for years.

But then, one day, the server owner says, “Actually,

you were placed here by a player from a hostile faction… so you’re still property.

You don’t have rights.” That was basically Dred Scott’s situation. He was an enslaved man who had lived

in free states—areas where slavery wasn’t allowed. So he thought: “Wait, if I’ve been living

in a free biome, doesn’t that make me free?” He took it all the way to the Supreme Court—the