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List of Enslaved People Freed by Lawrence Taliaferro

Eliza
Frederick
William
Horace
Thomas
Samuel
Jerry
Armistead
John
Horace 2d
Lizzie
Bettie
Harriet
Susan
William 2d
Turner
Turner 2d
Wyatt
Phillis
Lucy
Charlotte

21 freed from Slavery
1839-40-43

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Dred Scott, The Veteran Litigant This teaching module explores how legal actors like Dred Scott possessed knowledge about the law unaccounted for in the Supreme Court record of their cases. This module reads the "Statement of Facts" in Scott v. Sandford alongside contemporaneous unpublished documents to reveal the significant ways Dred Scott directed the course of his own freedom-making.

Title
List of Enslaved People Freed by Lawrence Taliaferro
Description
This undated note scribbled on the back of a document attesting to Lawrence Talliaferro's membership in the Franklin Society lists the name of 21 enslaved men and women whom Taliaferro manumitted between 1839-1843. Among the names is Harriet Robinson, the wife of Dred Scott.
Author
Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871
Legal Concept
Slavery
Emancipation
Subject
African Americans
Temporal Coverage
Territorial Expansion
Antebellum Period
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Image
Document Category
Primary Source
Archival Source
Lawrence Taliaferro Papers, 1813-1868, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, 1813-1835, Doc. 2, Minnesota Historical Society
Digital Repository
Minnesota Historical Society Collections Online
URL
https://www.mnhs.org/collection-record?uuid=04288775-ff6d-4320-b513-611a34d0507b
Item sets
Dred Scott, The Veteran Litigant

Title
List of Enslaved People Freed by Lawrence Taliaferro
Description
This undated note scribbled on the back of a document attesting to Lawrence Talliaferro's membership in the Franklin Society lists the name of 21 enslaved men and women whom Taliaferro manumitted between 1839-1843. Among the names is Harriet Robinson, the wife of Dred Scott.
Author
Taliaferro, Lawrence, 1794-1871
Legal Concept
Slavery
Emancipation
Subject
African Americans
Temporal Coverage
Territorial Expansion
Antebellum Period
Document Type
Image
Document Category
Primary Source
Archival Source
Lawrence Taliaferro Papers, 1813-1868, Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers, 1813-1835, Doc. 2, Minnesota Historical Society
Digital Repository
Minnesota Historical Society Collections Online
URL
https://www.mnhs.org/collection-record?uuid=04288775-ff6d-4320-b513-611a34d0507b
Item sets
Dred Scott, The Veteran Litigant