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Jameson's Persecution: The Dred Scott Case

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Later in the month, Jameson and his aides went beyond their original plan and drafted an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. The Court didn’t reply, however. Just days before her execution, Celia was freed from jail, for reasons that have been lost to history. However, it is known that she’s returned to captivity shortly after the day of her execution passes, and she was sentenced to be executed in December. Tragically, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled against Jameson’s appeal and upheld the jury’s initial decision. This ruling is consistent with the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling in the Dred Scott case earlier that year: at the time, the American legal system said that slaves were the property of their masters, which meant that

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