Who am I to tell this story? How can I, a white man from Utah possibly understand – let alone convey – what it was to be a SLAVE? Where is my legitimacy?

Six years studying and experiencing everying I possibly could about Dred Scott.


I have walked among the cotton fields and through the marshy swamps listening to the cicadas and feeling the wet heat of "The Olde Place" plantation in Southampton County VA where Dred was born "Sam Blow."



I have knelt in prayer at the slave cemetery, where Sam's br...