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To the victor, goes the… Narrative: Connecting CRT to symbolic annihilation within the Criminality of Blackness In March of 1857 a decisive 7-2 ruling amongst the Supreme Court declared that Black slaves we're not citizens but merely the property of their White slave owners (Corwin, 1911). Born into slavery, Dred Scott along with his wife Harriet, sued the Emerson family for their freedom in 1846. Political tensions fueled for years as the Missouri compromise served as a national settlement on the matter of slavery and signified The American campaign to expand westward into new territory. After Scott’s marriage, the newlywedded Scotts were ordered to return to the Emerson state in St. Louis in 1842. The Scotts in 1846 filed the suit against Irene Emerson, the widow of Doctor Emerson. With legal help from numerous local St. Louis abolitionist members as well as the Blow family the Scotts were able to successfully challenge Irene Emerson in courts of law. Despite Scott losing the...