Jul 14 Relentless Pursuit of Freedom
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-07-14

Beth Richard presents a Natchez History Minute about Marguerite Scypion, an African-Natchez woman who  filed the first “freedom suit” in the St. Louis circuit court, 41 years before the Dred Scott case. Scypion and her family finally won their freedom in 1836.