Record Data
Source citation
"Dred Scott Free At Last," Memphis (TN) Appeal, May 29, 1857, p. 2.
Original source
St. Louis (MO) News
Newspaper: Publication
Memphis (TN) Appeal
Newspaper: Headline
Dred Scott Free At Last
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Sayo Ayodele
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
DRED SCOTT FREE AT LAST - HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY EMANCIPATED. - This morning, Taylor Blow, Esq., appeared in the Circuit Court, and entered the emancipation of Dred Scott, his wife Harriet, and his two daughters Eliza and Jane. The persons thus liberated were conveyed to Mr. Blow by their owner, Hon. Mr. Chaffee, of Massachusetts, for the purpose, as the law of this State on the subject requires, that the emancipation shall be performed by a citizen of Missouri. Dred Scott was originally a slave of Capt. Peter Blow who brought him to this State from Virginia, and the act of liberation was therefore appropriately performed in the name of one of his master's family. Taylor Blow is one of our heat citizens, and is one of "them boys" whom Dred says he was "raised" with. - St. Louis News.