| She had children with an Irish-American slaveowner named Shields whose family came from the rural area of Ballysheil in Co Offaly. |
| The lower courts agreed but the Missouri Supreme Court sided with the slaveowner, prompting Scott to initiate a new lawsuit in federal court. |
| Replacing Jackson, a slaveowner, with the abolitionist Tubman would have a satisfying symmetry. |
| 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. |
