What was Dred Scott's problems and what were his solutions?

Dred Scott's problem was that he was born a slave in America before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. Scott was involved in what came to be known as the "Dred Scott Decision." Fleeing slavery and persecution in the South, Scott and his family settled in the Midwest. He lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for many years and pursued legal avenues in many levels of court to achieve his freedom. Suing for his freedom was his attempt to find a "solution" to his "problems."
All of this led to a US Supreme Court decision in 1857. The court denied Scott his freedom, concluding that anyone of African decent, whether free or not, was, according to the Constitution, not considered a citizen of the US. Perhaps devastated by the decision and his long legal battle, Scott died the next year.
The Dred Scott case illustrated how even in the North, US society had yet to accept that slavery was unjust. While there were certainly people involved in the abolitionist movement and it had become a national political issue, freedom for the slaves would have to wait for the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.