This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1852 |
| Citation: | 3 Md. 119 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Testator manumitted certain slaves by will providing that they leave the state and go back to Liberia, but if they are not willing to go to Liberia then they are to be hired out and their wages paid over to a certain corporation. Concluding that the provisions of the will do not prevent the slaves from taking freedom if the corporation cannot take them. |
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| Full name: | Daniel N. Vansant vs. Thomas A. Roberts, Adm'r c. t. a. of Cornelius Vansant |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |