Marguerite Scypion
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Marguerite Scypion
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Marguerite Scypion, also known in court files as Marguerite, was an African-Natchez woman, born into slavery in St. Louis, then located in French Upper Louisiana. She was held first by Joseph Tayon and later by Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the most powerful men in the city. In 1805, two years after St. Louis came under US rule, Marguerite filed the first "freedom suit" in the city's circuit court, 41 years before Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed their more well-known case. In November 1836,
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Enslaved American (c.1770s – after 1836)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Scypion
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2024-01-08T16:36:52Z
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