First off, let's set the record straight on the expression itself -- it's actually "scot-free." And contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with Dred Scott or the Scottish.
Sceot is the Old English for "a tax." Scot and lotwas a medieval muncipal tax levied on residents. Someone who managed to avoid paying this medieval tax got off "scot free."
Eventually, the word evolved to describe getting away without any kind of punishment, fiscal or otherwise. Kids who fake fevers get out of school scot-free. Cagey adults escape jury duty scot-free. And dogs with remorseful eyes get off scot-free from just about any wrongdoing.
Dred Scott based his claim for freedom on the fact that his master had taken him to free states and territories.
Scott argued he was a free man because he lived where slavery was illegal. He wasn't a free man for two reasons. One, Scott has no right to sue a federal government court because African Americans were not citizens. Two, Taney, said; merely living in free territory did not make an enslaved person free.
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It was a term of endearment used by Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, the Great Gatsby
The cast of Scott Free - 1986 includes: Selina Scott as Herself - Presenter
T.B. Scott Free Library was created in 1911.
The cast of Scott Free - 1957 includes: Wallas Eaton as Gribble Terry Scott as Terry Norman Vaughan as Norman
The web address of the T.B. Scott Free Library is: http://www.tbscottlibrary.org
The phone number of the T.B. Scott Free Library is: 715-536-7191.
Alexander Walker Scott died in 1883.
Carl is of Germanic origin, and it was a term for a free man (not a slave or peasant) who was not of noble birth.
Robert Falcon Scott came from England.
The US Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case resulted in the court making it clear that Scott could not be a free man and denied his case to be free of his slavery status. The Court declared that Scott was not a US citizen, and thus could not sue for his freedom.
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