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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Commonwealth v. Griffith 19 Mass. 11 1823 0 False imprisonment Massachusetts
Commonwealth v. Hambright 4 Serg. & Rawle 218 1818 0 False imprisonment SC of PA.
State v. Kitty 12 La. Ann. 805 1857 0 False confessions, murder, criminal law Louisiana
People v. Wolven 2 Edm. Sel. Cas. 108 1848 0 False arrest of alleged fugitive slave City Court of New York
Crane v. Brundage 14 N.J.L. 602 1835 Failure to register child under gradual abolition of slavery statute New Jersey
Trustees of the Poor v. Hall 3 Del. 322 1841 0 Failure to provide funding for an enslaved indivudual and if defendant was liable Delaware
State v. Ransell 41 Conn. 433 1874 0 Failure to provide for family Connecticut
Dilliard v. Connoway 25 Miss. 230 1852 0 Failure to perform requirement of will Mississippi
Clayton v. Mitchell 2 Del. Cas. 532 1820 0 Failure to pay for a transferred enslaved person Delaware
Burrows v. Truitt 1 Del. Cas. 613 1818 0 Failure to pay for a transferred enslaved person Delaware
Warren v. Brooks 7 Cow. 218 1827 0 Failure to obtain certificate of "slave's ability to maintain himself" pursuant to statute prior to freeing slave SC of New York
Molett v. State 33 Ala. 408 1859 0 Failure to Keep White Person on Plantation Alabama
Mims v. Sturdevant 36 Ala. 636 1860 0 Failure to Include an Enslaved Person in Property of Estate Alabama
Reynolds v. Walker 29 Miss. 250 1855 0 Failure to hire out slaves as provided by estate Mississippi
Walton v. Aguiliar 90 Va. Cir. 482 2010 1 failure to disclose material facts in property sale Virginia
Case of Williams 29 F. Cas. 1334 1839 0 Failure to deliver slave District Court, E.D. PA.
Skinner v. Gunn 9 Port. 305 1839 0 Failure of Consideration Alabama
Rowland v. Walker 18 Ala. 749 1851 0 Failure of Consideration Alabama
Watson v. Savell 9 Fla. 506 1861 0 Failure of a Warranty for Sale of a Slave Supreme Court of FL
Langford v. State 8 Tex. 115 1852 0 Facts RE conviction of stealing a slave Texas