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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Birney v. State 8 Ohio 230 1837 0 Indictment for harboring slave Ohio
Cook v. State 26 Ga. 593 1858 0 Indictment for harboring slave Supreme Court of Georgia
State v. Burk 49 N.C. 7 1856 0 Indictment for harboring a runaway slave North Carolina
Martin v. State 16 Tex. 240 1856 0 Indictment for harbing a slave Texas
Thomas v. Alexander 19 N.C. 385 1837 0 Indictment for haboring and maintaining a runaway slave North Carolina
State v. Harriet 49 N.C. 264 1857 0 Indictment for grand larceny North Carolina
Miller v. State 40 Ala. 54 1866 0 Indictment for grand larceny Alabama
Kitrol v. State 9 Fla. 9 1860 0 Indictment for "Gaming with Negroes and Other Persons of Color" Supreme Court of FL
Ward v. State 37 Ala. 158 1861 0 Indictment for Gaming with an Enslaved Person Alabama
State v. Smith 13 N.C. 281 1829 0 Indictment for gambling with a slave North Carolina
Ivey v. State 23 Ga. 576 1857 0 Indictment for Fornication Supreme Court of Georgia
Hamilton v. Commonwealth 3 Pen. & W. 142 1831 0 Indictment for forcible detainment SC of PA.
Respublica v. Bob 4 U.S. 125 1795 0 Indictment for first degree murder SC of PA.
State v. Crocker 2 Del. Cas. 150 1801 0 Indictment for felony stealing of goods; Guilty Delaware
State v. Wupperman 13 Tex. 33 1854 0 Indictment for failure to produce slave Texas
Respublica v. Richards 1 Yeates 480 1795 0 Indictment for failure to abide by gradual abolition SC of PA.
Spencer v. State 20 Ala. 24 1852 0 Indictment for enticing away a enslaved person Alabama
Overaker v. State 1 Mor. St. Cas. 268 1872 0 Indictment for entertaining slaves Mississippi
Eberlin v. Mayor of Mobile 30 Ala. 548 1857 0 Indictment for Doing Business with Enslaved Persons Alabama
State v. M'Donald 4 Port. 449 1837 0 Indictment for Conspiraring with an Enslaved Person to Start a Rebellion Alabama