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    Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by enslaved people against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often...
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    The Freedom Suits Memorial is a 14-foot-tall (4.3 m) bronze sculpture in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Hundreds of people attended the ceremony. It commemorates...
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  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    in their freedom suit were displayed at the main branch of the St. Louis Public Library, following the discovery of more than 300 freedom suits in the archives...
    81 KB (10,169 words) - 20:57, 10 March 2025
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムSEED(シード) FREEDOM(フリーダム), Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Shīdo Furīdamu) is a 2024 Japanese animated...
    55 KB (6,200 words) - 10:55, 26 February 2025
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    Dred Scott (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    19th century Circuit Court Cases in St. Louis, particularly freedom suits, including suits brought by Dred and Harriet Scott. A partnership of Washington...
    36 KB (4,113 words) - 18:51, 14 February 2025
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    slaves in court against their masters as early as 1752. He won the first freedom suit in the British American colonies in 1766. The post-revolutionary court...
    33 KB (4,289 words) - 01:36, 8 January 2025
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    extravehicular activity (EVA) more complex space suits are worn, featuring a portable life support system. Pressure suits are in general needed at low pressure environments...
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  • Chicago politics, which premiered alongside the final season of Suits on July 17, 2019. Suits concluded on September 25, 2019, after nine seasons and 134...
    74 KB (6,991 words) - 21:06, 11 March 2025
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    Elizabeth Key Grinstead (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    lawsuit was one of the earliest "freedom suits" by an African-descended person in the English colonies. In response to Key's suit and other challenges, the Virginia...
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    Retrieved March 2, 2022. Schweninger, Loren (2018). Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South. Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-066429-9...
    156 KB (16,234 words) - 20:59, 7 March 2025
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    Harriet Robinson Scott (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    making the Scotts the first and only married couple to file separate freedom suits in tandem. Born into slavery in Virginia, Harriet Robinson lived briefly...
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  • several slaves filed freedom suits in 1773–1774 based on Mansfield's ruling; these were supported by the colony's General Court (for freedom of the slaves)...
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    Jean-Pierre Chouteau (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    of the peace. St. Louis was the site of hundreds of "freedom suits" filed by slaves seeking freedom on varying grounds of "wrongful enslavement". In 1826...
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  • Maryland, had once worked as an attorney for various Queen family members' freedom suits in the 1790s. In his dissent, Duvall argued against the majority's refusal...
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    Delaney's case in court and won her freedom in February 1844. Delaney's and her mother’s cases were two of 301 freedom suits filed in St. Louis from 1814 to...
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    name.) Scott filed suit for freedom in 1846 and went through two state trials, the first denying and the second granting freedom to the couple (and,...
    345 KB (36,643 words) - 16:26, 10 March 2025
  • Philiana (October 12, 2012). "USA's 'Suits' Renewed for Season 3". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 28, 2013. Suits Season 3 Spoilers: Gary Cole Returns...
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    Herring (2008), p. 104. Foley, William E. (October 1984). "Slave Freedom Suits before Dred Scott: The Case of Marie Jean Scypion's Descendants". Missouri...
    64 KB (7,274 words) - 01:32, 9 March 2025
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    Francis B. Murdoch (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    initiated freedom suits for Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson Scott in 1846. Between 1840 and 1847, Murdoch filed nearly one-third of all freedom suits in St...
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    enslaved African Americans appeared before the Massachusetts courts in freedom suits, spurred on the decision made in the Somerset v. Stewart case, which...
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