Citing Slavery Project

Case Name	Citation	Year	Law Type	Jurisdiction ▲
Calmes v. Ford	14 Miss. 190	1846	Levy on slave	Mississippi
McKiernan v. Massingill	14 Miss. 375	1846	Bill of sale dispute	Mississippi
Warner v. Warner	33 Miss. 547	1857	Forfeiture of right to life interest in slaves belonging to wife	Mississippi
Vanhouten v. Reily	14 Miss. 440	1846	Levy on slave	Mississippi
King v. Terry	7 Miss. 513	1842	Levy on slave dispute	Mississippi
Melton v. Howard	8 Miss. 103	1843	Levy on slaves dispute	Mississippi
Phipps v. Morton	33 Miss. 211	1857	Recovery of an enslaved woman	Mississippi
Rowley v. Cummings	9 Miss. 340	1843	Levy on slave dispute	Mississippi
Lewis v. State	41 Miss. 686	1868	Liability of a master for enslaved man on bond	Mississippi
Redus v. Wofford	12 Miss. 579	1845	Levy on slave	Mississippi
Wanzer v. Barker	5 Miss. 363	1840	Levy on slaves dispute	Mississippi
Barker v. Justice	41 Miss. 240	1866	Sale of a slave without certificate of condition	Mississippi
McRea v. Walker	5 Miss. 455	1840	Recovery for property	Mississippi
Jeff v. State	39 Miss. 593	1860	Assault and battery committed by enslaved man on his master.	Mississippi
Olive v. Walton	33 Miss. 103	1857	How separate estate of wife descends	Mississippi
Smith v. Allen	39 Miss. 469	1860	Recovery of enslaved man in posession of creditors	Mississippi
Pitts v. State	43 Miss. 472	1871	Admissibility of an extra-judicial confession	Mississippi
Meek v. Perry	36 Miss. 190	1858	Will leaving slaves to a ward	Mississippi
Williams v. Williams	43 Miss. 430	1871	Division of an estate	Mississippi
Shaw v. Brown	42 Miss. 309	1868	Proving emancipation of enslaved people carried out of state by emancipation	Mississippi