| The lower courts agreed but the Missouri Supreme Court sided with the slaveowner, prompting Scott to initiate a new lawsuit in federal court. |
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| Replacing Jackson, a slaveowner, with the abolitionist Tubman would have a satisfying symmetry. |
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| She had children with an Irish-American slaveowner named Shields whose family came from the rural area of Ballysheil in Co Offaly. |
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| The last of the slavery states, it was a launching pad for numerous raids into Kansas by slaveowner militias hired to turn the vote in that state in favor of the slavers. |
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