Harriet Robinson Scott
✓ Source-basedfallingAfrican American abolitionist wife of Dred Scott
United StatesLived 1815 to 1876 · aged 61Harriet Robinson Scott was an African American woman who fought for her freedom alongside her husband, Dred Scott, for eleven years. Their legal battle culminated in the infamous United States Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. On April 6, 1846, attorney Francis B. Murdoch had initiated Harriet v.
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Lawrence Taliaferro and Eliza Dillon Taliaferro (c. 1835)
St. Peter's Agency house (left in white fence) near Fort Snelling above the joining of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers (c.1850)
View from Fort Snelling looking across the Minnesota River toward Mendota (1848)
Geographer Joseph Nicollet stayed with the Taliaferros
Dred Scott
Harriet and Dred's restored living quarters at Historic Fort Snelling
Map of "free states" (blue) and "slave states" (red) in the United States as of 1837. Eliza Scott was born north of Missouri and hence in "free territory."In their orbit 2
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Harriet Robinson Scott was an African American woman who fought for her freedom alongside her husband, Dred Scott, for eleven years. Their legal battle culminated in the infamous United States Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. On April 6, 1846, attorney Francis B. Murdoch had initiated Harriet v. Irene Emerson in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, making the Scotts the first and only married couple to file separate freedom suits in tandem.
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