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Dred Scott, a slave from birth, sued his owner's widow on the basis of a Missouri precedent holding that slaves freed through prolonged residence in a free state or territory would remain free upon returning to Missouri. Scott had spent several years living in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory with his owner, Dr. John Emerson, before ...
Whitesides alias Prewitt (1 Mo. 472, 1824 WL 1839 [1824]) was the first freedom suit heard by the Supreme Court of Missouri. The case established the state's judicial criteria for an enslaved person's right to freedom. The court determined that if a slave owner took a slave into free territory and established residence there, the slave would be ...
Map and view of St. Louis, 1848. This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri from settlement until 1865: . Jim Adams, Missouri and New Orleans [1]; Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo. [2]
Elected officials in Missouri's Jackson County are adding plaques to statues of the Kansas City area county's namesake noting that the nation's seventh president was a slave owner and forced ...
Missouri statehood, with the Tallmadge Amendment approved, would have set a trajectory towards a free state west of the Mississippi and a decline in southern political authority. The question as to whether the Congress was allowed to restrain the growth of slavery in Missouri took on great importance in slave states.
[261] The slaves Jackson was trafficking, one of whom was named John Amp, were collectively armed with two axes and six clubs. [255] [262] Silas Dinsmoor was a slave owner. He is also remembered as a man of courage and character, especially in his dealings with the Choctaw. [263] (Photo: Dinsmore Homestead)
Missouri was initially settled predominantly by Southerners, who traveled up the Mississippi River.Many brought slaves with them. Missouri entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in which Congress agreed that slavery would be illegal in all territory north of 36°30' latitude, except Missouri.
A Missouri appeals court is weighing whether a Missouri House rule allowing lawmakers to keep some documents secret violates a constitutional amendment approved by voters.