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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Smith v. Smith 10 Mart. (o.s.) 400 1821 0 Wages, leases, sales Louisiana
Wyche v. Wyche 10 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1821 0 Community property, property, sales, successions, damages Louisiana
Brown v. Compton 10 Mart. (o.s.) 425 1821 0 Fraud, runaway enslaved person, manumission, sales, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Julien v. Langlish 9 Mart. (o.s.) 205 1821 0 Successions, freedom suit, emancipation, property, witness testimony Louisiana
Dussuau v. Rilieux 9 Mart. (o.s.) 318 1821 0 Suretyship, damages, seizure, property, sales, debts Louisiana
Chiapella v. Lanusse's Syndics 10 Mart. (o.s.) 448 1821 0 Sales, property, mortgages, syndics, privileges, bankruptcy Louisiana
Garretson v. Lingan 2 D.C. 236 1821 0 Freedom Petition United States
Pelletreau v. Rathbone 18 Johns. 428 1821 0 SC of New York
Butler v. Delaplaine 7 Serg. & Rawle 378 1821 0 Lease dispute SC of PA.
Alexander v. Stokely 7 Serg. & Rawle 299 1821 0 Recovery for services SC of PA.
Shockley v. Traverse 2 Del. Cas. 673 1821 0 Question of whether an illegal exportation of an enslaved woman who was freed at a time but sold prior to that period Delaware
Ellis v. Wootten 2 Del. Cas. 625 1821 0 Action against man who failed to deliver an enslaved individual Delaware
Costin v. Corporation of Washington 2 D.C. 254 1821 0 Municipal Corporations United States
Inhabitants of Hallowell v. Inhabitants of Gardiner 1 Me. 93 1820 0 Settlement for slave SC of Maine
Reeler v. Robinson 2 D.C. 220 1820 0 Freedom Suit United States
Gray v. Reardon 2 D.C. 219 1820 0 Agency Law United States
Knight v. Yarbrough 21 Va. 27 1820 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Billy v. State 11 S.C.L. 356 1820 0 South Carolina
Davidson v. Davidson's Executors 8 N.C. 163 1820 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Sterling v. Fusilier 7 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Warranty, sales, eviction, suretyship, damages, contracts, property Louisiana