Scott, Harriet, approximately 1820-1876
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معلومات حول الهوية:
الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Scott, Harriet, approximately 1820-1876
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Robinson, Harriet, approximately 1820-1876
Scott, Dred, Mrs, approximately 1820-1876
Scott, Harriett Robinson, approximately 1820-1876
تاريخ الميلاد
1820
تاريخ الوفاة
1876-06-17
بلدان ذات صلة
United States
مهنة
Laundresses
Slaves--United States
النوع الاجتماعي
female
مصادر المعلومات
- BlackPast.org website, viewed February 9, 2016(Harriet Robinson Scott; born a slave on a Virginia plantation around 1820; a servant to Lawrence Taliaferro, a US Indian Agent; married Dred Scott in either 1836 or 1837 in a ceremony performed by Taliaferro; after being freed, Harriet worked as a washerwoman; after her husband's death, she continued to live in St. Louis with her unmarried older daughter until her death in an alleyway apartment on June 17, 1876)
- Dred Scott Wikipedia article, viewed February 9, 2016(Harriet Scott was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Hillsdale, Missouri; she outlived her husband by 18 years, dying on June 17, 1876)
- Dred and Harriet Scott, c2004:ECIP galley (as a slave, Harriet went only by the name Harriet, but years later, her former master Major Taliaferro called her Harriet Robinson and that was the name she gave herself; Harriet Robinson Scott; lived in St. Louis until about 1870)
- Mrs. Dred Scott, 2009:p. 1 (Harriet Robinson Scott)
- State Historical Society of Missouri website, viewed February 9, 2016:historic Missourians (Harriet Robinson Scott; was born into slavery in Virginia and was owned by Major Lawrence Taliaferro, who served as a federal Indian agent; Major Taliaferro brough her with him to Fort Snelling in the early 1830s; married Dred Scott in either 1836 or 1837 in a civil ceremony performed by Major Taliaferro, and became the property of Dr. John Emerson; worked as a "free Negro" laundress in St. Louis for many years; her name is listed in St. Louis directories from 1859 to 1876; she is also listed in the 1860 census as living in her own home and in the 1870 census as a live-in domestic; Harriet Scott, a free woman, died of "general disability" on June 17, 1876; she was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, a burial ground in St. Louis for black Americans)
- Univ. of Iowa FYI on WWW, Oct. 3, 2003(from article "Law professor shines light on 'Mrs. Dred Scott'": Harriett Robinson Scott; slave of Major Lawrence Taliaferro, U.S. Indian agent for the Upper Mississippi River who spent much of his federal career at Fort Snelling, Minn., and other outposts in the NW territories; Harriett Robinson may have been born in Va., but likely spent a good deal of her early life in Pa.; she arrived at Fort Snelling with Taliaferro between the mid-1820s and 1835; she married Dred Scott when she was 17 years old (he was about 40) in a ceremony presided over by Taliaferro; Harriett Scott would have been at least 28 years old in 1846, which, according to Pa. laws of manumission, would have made her a free woman)