is case. This also shows that Scott may have been persuadable to another person's reasons for pursuing the case. In addition, if this was true and Scott "had been illegally held as a slave since 1834." (Herda, 30) This shows that, he would have the right to compensation, and therefore be entitled to what would be a lot of money. This also shows, how a mistake by a master in his traveling with a slave into free states could invoke a slaves freedom and cost the master years of wages, even time subsequently spent in Missouri, a slave
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