Charlotte Dupuy
African American plaintiff in freedom suit
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Charlotte Dupuy, also called Lottie (born ca. 1787-1790 - d. after 1866) , was an enslaved African-American woman who filed a freedom suit in 1829 against her master, Henry Clay, then Secretary of State. This case went to court seventeen years before Dred Scott filed his more famous legal challenge to slavery. Then living in Washington, DC, Dupuy sued for her freedom and that of her two children, based on a promise by her previous owner. This was an example of the many freedom suits filed by slaves in the decades before the Civil War.
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