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Case Name ▲ Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Ward ex rel. Burke v. Hatch 26 N.C. 282 1844 0 Action of debt North Carolina
Ward v. Bevill 10 Ala. 197 1846 0 Property dispute Alabama
Ward v. Epsy 25 Tenn. 447 1846 0 Tennessee
Ward v. Jones 40 N.C. 400 1848 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Ward v. Reeder 2 Md. 145 1785 0 Maryland
Ward v. Reynolds 32 Ala. 384 1858 0 Assumpsit for Purchase of an Enslaved Person Alabama
Ward v. Riddick 57 N.C. 22 1858 0 Gifts North Carolina
Ward v. Saunders 35 Tenn. 387 1855 0 Tennessee
Ward v. Saunders 2 Swan 174 1852 0 Tennessee
Ward v. Smith 30 N.C. 296 1848 0 Action of trover North Carolina
Ward v. State 37 Ala. 158 1861 0 Indictment for Gaming with an Enslaved Person Alabama
Ward v. Stow 17 N.C. 509 1834 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Ware v. W'Candlish 38 Va. 595 1841 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Waring v. Edmonds 11 Md. 424 1857 0 Maryland
Warner v. Burton 12 Ark. 144 1851 0 Bill to enforce divorce Arkansas
Warner v. Robertson 13 Ga. 370 1853 0 Contract Dispute Supreme Court of Georgia
Warner v. Warner 33 Miss. 547 1857 0 Forfeiture of right to life interest in slaves belonging to wife Mississippi
Warren v. Brooks 7 Cow. 218 1827 0 Failure to obtain certificate of "slave's ability to maintain himself" pursuant to statute prior to freeing slave SC of New York
Washington v. Barnes 41 Ga. 307 1870 0 Slave contract dispute Supreme Court of Georgia
Washington v. Blunt 43 N.C. 253 1852 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina