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    Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often based...
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  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダムSEED(シード) FREEDOM(フリーダム), Hepburn: Kidō Senshi Gandamu Shīdo Furīdamu) is a 2024 Japanese animated...
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    Dred Scott (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    said that Scott should have filed for freedom in the Wisconsin Territory. Scott ended up filing a freedom suit in federal court (see below for details)...
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    Elizabeth Key Grinstead (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    lawsuit was one of the earliest "freedom suits" by an African-descended person in the English colonies. In response to Key's suit and other challenges, the Virginia...
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    The Freedom Suits Memorial is a 14-foot-tall (4.3 m) bronze sculpture in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Hundreds of people attended the ceremony. It commemorates...
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    waterproof, so items put in them can stay dry. A one-piece ski suit is sometimes called a "freedom suit". It covers the whole torso, arms and legs. They usually...
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  • novels. A sequel series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny followed in 2004 and a followup film, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom was released in 2024. Merchandise...
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    2022. Schweninger, Loren (September 3, 2018). Appealing for Liberty: Freedom Suits in the South. Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-19-066429-9...
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    Chouteau (1758–1849), half-brother of Auguste Chouteau and defendant in a freedom suit by Marguerite Scypion. Cicero (106–43 BCE), Roman statesman and philosopher...
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    because of a freedom suit in which Elizabeth Key, a mixed-race daughter of an Englishman, who had been baptized as Christian, won her freedom by a colonial...
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  • Dred Scott v. Sandford (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    in their freedom suit were displayed at the main branch of the St. Louis Public Library, following the discovery of more than 300 freedom suits in the archives...
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    frequently employed to allow complete freedom of movement, independent of the spacecraft. Three types of space suits exist for different purposes: IVA (intravehicular...
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    brought to Scotland, left him. Married and with a child, he filed a freedom suit, on the grounds that he could not be held as a slave in Great Britain...
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    slaves in court against their masters as early as 1752. He won the first freedom suit in the British American colonies in 1766. The post-revolutionary court...
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    Elizabeth Freeman (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    Mumbet, was one of the first enslaved African Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling, in...
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    Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. This is the only known first-person account of a freedom suit and one of the few slave narratives published...
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  • the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny anime television series, the sequel film Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom, as well as...
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    A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide...
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    held in St. Louis in Upper Louisiana when the U.S. took over). In a freedom suit that went from Missouri to the U.S. Supreme Court, slavery of Native...
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    of the Whig Party. He also represented Lucy Delaney in a successful freedom suit. After the breakup of the Whig Party in the early 1850s, he briefly joined...
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  • Morrison v. White (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    Morrison v. White was a freedom suit first filed in Louisiana's Third District Court in October 1857 by 15-year-old Jane (or Alexina) Morrison, a runaway...
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    work, and he signed a term of indenture to the planter. Johnson filed a Freedom suit against Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654 for the return of Casor...
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    mixed-race people seeking freedom often had to stress their English ancestry (and later, European). As a direct result of freedom suits such as those filed...
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  • Sally Miller (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    ), was an American woman enslaved sometime in the late 1810s, whose freedom suit in Louisiana was based on her claimed status as a free German immigrant...
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  • 1979, with Mobile Suit Gundam, a TV series that defined the "real robot" mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits (including the original...
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    John Casor (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    African man employed by Johnson, filed what later became known as a freedom suit. He said that he had been imported with an indenture of "seaven or eight...
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    Jean-Pierre Chouteau (category Freedom suits in the United States)
    of the peace. St. Louis was the site of hundreds of "freedom suits" filed by slaves seeking freedom on varying grounds of "wrongful enslavement". In 1826...
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    brought to Scotland, left him. Married and with a child, he filed a freedom suit, on the grounds that he could not be held as a slave in Great Britain...
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  • the original Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, the plot follows the new character Shinn Asuka, a soldier from the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, or ZAFT, composed...
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    Jewish emancipation Liberation (disambiguation) Manumission Political freedom Revolution (disambiguation) Self-determination Tanzimat Women's suffrage...
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