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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Lewis v. State 35 Ala. 380 1860 0 Indictment for Attempted Rape Alabama
State v. Clarissa 11 Ala. 57 1847 0 Indictment for Attempt to Poison Alabama
Dinah v. State 39 Ala. 359 1864 0 Indictment for Attempt to Posion Alabama
State v. Abram 10 Ala. 928 1847 0 Indictment for Biting off the Ear of a White Man Alabama
Joe v. State 38 Ala. 422 1863 0 Indictment for Burglary Alabama
State v. Abernathy 44 N.C. 428 1853 0 Indictment for buying and receiving goods from a slave North Carolina
Harrison v. State 9 Fla. 156 1860 0 Indictment for Buying Grain from a Slave Without a Permit Supreme Court of FL
Spivey v. State 26 Ala. 90 1855 0 Indictment for Carrying Away an Enslaved Person Alabama
State v. Williams 26 N.C. 400 1844 0 Indictment for compelling certain slaves to work on several Sundays North Carolina
State v. Duncan 9 Port. 260 1839 0 Indictment for concealing enslaved person Alabama
State v. M'Donald 4 Port. 449 1837 0 Indictment for Conspiraring with an Enslaved Person to Start a Rebellion Alabama
Eberlin v. Mayor of Mobile 30 Ala. 548 1857 0 Indictment for Doing Business with Enslaved Persons Alabama
Overaker v. State 1 Mor. St. Cas. 268 1872 0 Indictment for entertaining slaves Mississippi
Spencer v. State 20 Ala. 24 1852 0 Indictment for enticing away a enslaved person Alabama
Respublica v. Richards 1 Yeates 480 1795 0 Indictment for failure to abide by gradual abolition SC of PA.
State v. Wupperman 13 Tex. 33 1854 0 Indictment for failure to produce slave Texas
State v. Crocker 2 Del. Cas. 150 1801 0 Indictment for felony stealing of goods; Guilty Delaware
Respublica v. Bob 4 U.S. 125 1795 0 Indictment for first degree murder SC of PA.
Hamilton v. Commonwealth 3 Pen. & W. 142 1831 0 Indictment for forcible detainment SC of PA.
Ivey v. State 23 Ga. 576 1857 0 Indictment for Fornication Supreme Court of Georgia