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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Spence v. Holman 30 Ga. 646 1860 0 Recovery of slave Supreme Court of Georgia
William H. Davis' Case 1 Del. 17 1832 0 Denial of a petition for freedom Delaware
Tillman v. Chadwick 37 Ala. 317 1861 0 Trespass Alabama
Potts ex rel. Potts v. Carls 3 Del. 86 1840 0 Procedural issue with a petition of freedom Delaware
Murphy v. Partee 66 Tenn. 373 1874 0 Tennessee
Lessee of Conoway v. Piper 3 Del. 482 1842 0 Transferance of two enslaved individual to two different children Delaware
Townshend v. Matthews 10 Md. 251 1856 0 Maryland
State v. Adams 2 Del. Cas. 190 1803 0 Indictment for kidnapping an enslaved woman Delaware
Clayton v. Mitchell 2 Del. Cas. 532 1820 0 Failure to pay for a transferred enslaved person Delaware
State v. Absolom 2 Del. Cas. 32 1808 0 Free man who was deemed enslaved after he committed larceny Delaware
Burrows v. Truitt 1 Del. Cas. 613 1818 0 Failure to pay for a transferred enslaved person Delaware
Wilson v. George 1 Del. Cas. 632 1818 0 Petition for freedom denied Delaware
Harris v. McCullen 2 Del. Cas. 176 1802 0 Probate claims that include several enslaved individuals Delaware
State v. Crocker 2 Del. Cas. 150 1801 0 Indictment for felony stealing of goods; Guilty Delaware
Townshend v. Townshend 9 Gill 506 1851 0 Maryland
State v. Smith 2 Del. Cas. 164 1802 0 Indictment for larceny and whether enslave dmen could own property; No property; guilty and sentenced to lashing Delaware
State v. George 2 Del. Cas. 137 1800 0 Indictment for rape, guilty and executed Delaware
Hazzard v. Walton 1 Del. Cas. 221 1799 0 Action of replevin of an enslaved person denied because lack of evidence of enslavement to another individual Delaware
Brent v. Peyton 40 Va. 604 1843 0 Suit in equity SC of Appeals VA
Vaden v. Vaden 38 Tenn. 444 1858 0 Tennessee