One unfair case related to the Crucible is the Dred Scott case. In this case there was a slave named Dred Scott who had a wife and lived with his master and her wife. Their master took them into free territory but Dred Scott never tried to escape. Instead he decided to appeal to the courts for citizenship, he sayed that because he was in free territory were slavery was illegal he should be able to claim citizenship and become a free man. The court told him that becuase of his skin collor he would never be able to become a citizen of the U.S. Also becuase he was the legall property to his master he was owned and therfore it would be unfair if his master lost his property.
This relates to the Crucible mainly because the court made a mistake, and apologized for it after the fact just like in the Salem Witchtrials. Secondly, the court ruled with a seven to two ruling. So some people agreed with Dred Scott just as some agreed with Proctor. The court used trickery and degrading tactics to claim that Dred Scott was property and therefore should not have his freedom. Their ruling was wrong just as the rulings were in the Salem Witch Trials and unfortunatlly they both got away with it.
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