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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Taylor v. Stedman 35 N.C. 97 1851 0 Action of assumpsit North Carolina
Taylor v. Stedman 33 N.C. 447 1850 0 Action of assumpsit North Carolina
McEntyre v. McEntyre 34 N.C. 299 1851 0 Action of assumpsit North Carolina
Cooper v. Purvis 46 N.C. 141 1853 0 Action of assumpsit (contracts) North Carolina
Janes v. Buzzard 13 F. Cas. 344 1834 0 Action of assumpsit for work of enslaved persons Arkansas
Huntington v. Adams 12 Ala. 834 1848 0 Action of bond Alabama
Burgess v. Sugg 2 Stew. & P. 341 1832 0 Action of bond Alabama
Alexander v. Torrence 51 N.C. 260 1858 0 Action of convenant North Carolina
Lemon v. Wright 31 Ga. 317 1860 0 Action of conversion of a slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Baynes v. Bernhard 12 Ga. 150 1852 0 action of covenant Supreme Court of Georgia
Johnson v. Dunn 51 N.C. 122 1858 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Atwell's Administrators v. Milton 14 Va. 253 1809 0 Action of covenant SC of Appeals VA
Shober v. Robinson 6 N.C. 33 1811 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Bell v. Walker 48 N.C. 320 1856 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Bell v. Walker 50 N.C. 43 1857 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Ayres v. Parks, Adm'r of Humphries 10 N.C. 59 1824 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Harrell v. Norvill 50 N.C. 29 1857 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Brown v. Brown 49 N.C. 123 1856 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Macon v. Crump 5 Va. 575 1799 0 Action of covenant SC of Appeals VA
Murrell v. Weathers 48 N.C. 525 1856 0 Action of covenant North Carolina