Dred and Harriet Scott sue Irene Emerson in the Missouri circuit court at St. Louis

04/06/1846

Source Citation

Walter Ehrlich, "Scott, Dred," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00984.html.

Don Edward Fehrenbacher, Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), 128-129.

Record Data

Date Certainty

Exact

Type

Legal/Political

Relevance

Personal

People

Emerson, Irene Sanford

Scott, Dred

Dred Scott, Louis Schultze portrait, detail

Scott, Harriet Robinson

Places

St. Louis, MO

Images

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