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Taylor Blow purchased Dred Scott, his wife Harriet, and two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie on May 26, 1857 and immediately emancipated them. Dred Scott went to work as a porter in a St. Louis hotel, but died of tuberculosis (a lung disease) in September 1858, little more than a year after gaining his freedom.
