Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Marguerite Scypion, also known in court files as Marguerite (free woman of color), (b. c. 1770s- d. after 1836) was an African-Natchez woman, born into slavery in Saint Louis, Missouri Territory. She was held first by Joseph Tayon and later by Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the most powerful men in the city. In 1805 Marguerite filed the first "freedom suit" in the city's circuit court, 41 years before Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed their more well-known case.. }
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- Marguerite_Scypion comment "Marguerite Scypion, also known in court files as Marguerite (free woman of color), (b. c. 1770s- d. after 1836) was an African-Natchez woman, born into slavery in Saint Louis, Missouri Territory. She was held first by Joseph Tayon and later by Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the most powerful men in the city. In 1805 Marguerite filed the first "freedom suit" in the city's circuit court, 41 years before Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed their more well-known case.".