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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
State v. Samuel 19 N.C. 177 1836 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Arthur 13 N.C. 217 1829 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Piver 3 N.C. 79 1799 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Boon 1 N.C. 246 1801 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Weaver 3 N.C. 54 1797 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Hoover 20 N.C. 365 1839 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Roane 13 N.C. 58 1828 0 Homicide North Carolina
State v. Tackett 8 N.C. 210 1820 0 Homicide North Carolina
Chandler v. State 2 Tex. 306 1847 0 Homicide of a slave Texas
Isham v. State 38 Ala. 213 1862 0 Homicide of a White Person Alabama
Epperson v. Young 19 Tex. 475 1857 0 Hostile posession of slaves Texas
Barksdale v. Elam 30 Miss. 694 1856 0 How illegal condition affects a contract Mississippi
Olive v. Walton 33 Miss. 103 1857 0 How separate estate of wife descends Mississippi
United States v. Gordon 25 F. Cas. 1364 1861 0 Human trafficking Circuit Court, S.D. New York
Hall's Heirs v. Hall's Executors 38 Ala. 131 1861 0 Human trafficking action Alabama
Lacoste v. Pipkin 21 Miss. 589 1850 0 Human trafficking action Mississippi
Sanderson v. Jones 6 Fla. 430 1855 0 Husband's Conveyance Power Supreme Court of FL
Friley v. White 31 Miss. 442 1856 0 Husbands right to enslaved woman belonging to wife Mississippi
Kemp v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 316 1847 0 Hyopthecary action, partition, property, sales, mortgages, promissory notes, tutorship, prescription Louisiana
Woodward v. Dashiell 15 La. 184 1840 0 Hypothecary action, debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, injunction Louisiana