Yesterday, May 26, 2009, a headstone was dedicated in Greenwood Cemetery in north St. Louis to Harriet Robinson Scott, wife of Dred Scott.
She and Dred both filed claims for freedom, but Harriet's case was combined with her husband's. At the time of the suits, however, Dred was sick with tuberculosis, and historians believe it was Harriet who kept going what became an 11-year battle.
No one knows the exact resting place for Harriet Scott. Until recently it was thought she was buried somewhere in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. A marker for her sits by her husband’s grave there.
Article from St. Louis Post Dispatch HERE
Marker at Calvary Cemetery
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This is really great. Wouldn't both Dred and Harriet be please to look at the White House today?
Thanks.
Interesting, it's funny how many years it takes to get things straightened out in history. Dred Scott certainly was one of those cases that highlights what can go wrong when judges try to legislate from the bench.
I see Taney as a strict constructionist.
For the most part I would agree but his declaration that blacks could not be citizens as part of his majority decision on Dred Scott and declaring the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional were carved out of whole cloth.
Wow, that is an eye-opening event. I hope she is smiling down from heaven.