Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Upshaw v. Upshaw 12 Va. 381 1808 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Bartley v. Yates 12 Va. 398 1808 0 Action of debt SC of Appeals VA
Kennedy v. Waller 12 Va. 415 1808 0 Action of trespass SC of Appeals VA
Cogbill v. Cogbill 12 Va. 467 1808 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Sale v. Roy 12 Va. 69 1808 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Jack v. Martin 12 Wend. 311 1834 0 Recovery for freedom SC of Judicature of New York
Brown v. Brown 13 Ala. 208 1848 0 Detinue Alabama
Freeman v. Baldwin 13 Ala. 246 1848 0 Dispute over Possession of an Enslaved Person Alabama
Phillips v. McGrew 13 Ala. 255 1848 0 Recovery for enslaved persons Alabama
Hill v. Ward 13 Ala. 310 1848 0 Maliciously Forbidding Sale of an Enslaved Person Alabama
Branch Bank at Montgomery v. Wade 13 Ala. 427 1848 0 Levy on enslaved person Alabama
Savery v. Spence 13 Ala. 561 1848 0 Dispute Arising from Alleged Joint Ownership of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Roberts v. Trawick 13 Ala. 68 1848 0 Will & trust Alabama
Whitfield v. Browder 13 Ark. 143 1852 0 Verbal loan of enslaved person Arkansas
Allen v. Nordheimer 13 Ark. 339 1853 0 Action of replevin Arkansas
Bingham v. Calvert 13 Ark. 399 1853 0 Recovery for value of enslaved person Arkansas
Campbell v. Campbell 13 Ark. 513 1853 0 Will & trust Arkansas
Maulding v. Scott 13 Ark. 88 1852 0 Will & trust Arkansas
Town of Colchester v. Town of Lyme 13 Conn. 274 1839 0 Recovery for freedom Connecticut
Jackson v. Kip 13 F. Cas. 220 1869 0 Will & Trust Circuit Court, S.D. New York