Rachel v. Walker

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Rachel v. Walker was a lawsuit involving a slave who, in 1834, sued for her freedom from John Walker in the Supreme Court of Missouri, and won. This result was cited in 1856 in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case before the Supreme Court of the United States.[1]

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  1. ^ http://curiae.law.yale.edu/html/60-393/004.htm

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