Considering the important role she played in American history, the slave woman Harriet Robinson Scott is remembered as little more than a ghost, forgotten to the point that for years nobody even knew where she was buried. But University of Iowa law professor Lea VanderVelde thought the woman otherwise known as Mrs. Dred Scott deserved her own biography, and so spent more than a decade bringing her history back to life. This led to an op-ed placement in The Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/February/021009harriet_scott.html
