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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
State v. Duncan 9 Port. 260 1839 0 Indictment for concealing enslaved person Alabama
State v. Williams 26 N.C. 400 1844 0 Indictment for compelling certain slaves to work on several Sundays North Carolina
Spivey v. State 26 Ala. 90 1855 0 Indictment for Carrying Away an Enslaved Person Alabama
Harrison v. State 9 Fla. 156 1860 0 Indictment for Buying Grain from a Slave Without a Permit Supreme Court of FL
State v. Abernathy 44 N.C. 428 1853 0 Indictment for buying and receiving goods from a slave North Carolina
Joe v. State 38 Ala. 422 1863 0 Indictment for Burglary Alabama
State v. Abram 10 Ala. 928 1847 0 Indictment for Biting off the Ear of a White Man Alabama
Dinah v. State 39 Ala. 359 1864 0 Indictment for Attempt to Posion Alabama
State v. Clarissa 11 Ala. 57 1847 0 Indictment for Attempt to Poison Alabama
Lewis v. State 35 Ala. 380 1860 0 Indictment for Attempted Rape Alabama
Dave v. State 22 Ala. 23 1853 0 Indictment for Assault with Intent to Kill Alabama
State v. Tom 47 N.C. 414 1855 0 Indictment for assault w/ intent to ravish North Carolina
Nix v. State 13 Tex. 575 1855 1 Indictment for assault upon slave Texas
State v. Jim 48 N.C. 348 1856 0 Indictment for assault on a white woman North Carolina
Bradley v. State 1 Mor. St. Cas. 416 1872 0 Indictment for assault by a slave Mississippi
State v. Jarvis 2 Del. Cas. 232 1805 0 Indictment for assault, battery, and false imrpisonment of an enslaved man Delaware
State v. Hudson 2 Del. Cas. 28 1797 0 Indictment for assault and battery on an enslaved man by a deputized man Delaware
Slate v. Hart 26 N.C. 222 1844 0 Indictment for assault and battery in shooting the prosecutor's slave North Carolina
State v. Mann 27 N.C. 45 1844 0 Indictment for assault North Carolina
Blount v. State 49 Ala. 381 1873 0 Indictment for assault Alabama