U.S. Indian Agent Lawrence Taliaferro owned Harriet Robinson. Army Surgeon John Emerson, not previously a slave owner, purchased Dred Scott in St. Louis. Like all enslaved people, those at the ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... While there, Scott met and married Harriet Robinson, a slave owned by a local justice of the peace. Ownership of Harriet was transferred ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man, along with his wife Harriet, famously sued for their freedom and that of their two daughters in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court case ...

A descendant of the couple who sued in the Dred Scott decision spoke to attendees at a Black history event in St. Louis about her family's lawsuit for their freedom. A descendant of Dred and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It was 1995 when Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, heard a prompting from God. "You should study Dred Scott," Jackson recalled hearing.

Ms. Jackson is the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott and the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. Ms. Torres-Mary is the great-granddaughter of Isabel Gonzalez ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved man who lost his bid for freedom, will be honored with a new memorial monument at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis on Saturday. In 1846, Scott and his wife, Harriet ...

If you assumed birtherism and attacks on Black citizenship were a flash in the pan for conservatives, think again. An official resolution from the National Federation of Republican Assemblies ...

“In the year 1835, Harriet . . . was the negro slave of Major ... before the federal Dred Scott case got under way. Meanwhile, “master” Emerson had died and his widow had married an ...

While living in the home, Roswell became the key attorney in the Dred and Harriet Scott Freedom Suit. Roswell formed a legal strategy that got the case to a federal court. Learn more about this ...

Dred Scott's great-great-great granddaughter says ... the foundation partnered on a project to bring a statue of Scott and his wife, Harriet Robinson Scott, to downtown St. Louis.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... While there, Scott met and married Harriet Robinson, a slave owned by a local justice of the peace. Ownership of Harriet was transferred ...