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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 308 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, indemnification Louisiana
Vienne v. Boissier 10 Mart. (o.s.) 359 1821 0 Successions, renunciation, property, sales, injunction Louisiana
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Smith v. Smith 10 Mart. (o.s.) 400 1821 0 Wages, leases, sales Louisiana
Garretson v. Lingan 2 D.C. 236 1821 0 Freedom Petition United States
Ellis v. Wootten 2 Del. Cas. 625 1821 0 Action against man who failed to deliver an enslaved individual Delaware
Butler v. Delaplaine 7 Serg. & Rawle 378 1821 0 Lease dispute SC of PA.
Pelletreau v. Rathbone 18 Johns. 428 1821 0 SC of New York
Costin v. Corporation of Washington 2 D.C. 254 1821 0 Municipal Corporations United States
Shockley v. Traverse 2 Del. Cas. 673 1821 0 Question of whether an illegal exportation of an enslaved woman who was freed at a time but sold prior to that period Delaware
Alexander v. Stokely 7 Serg. & Rawle 299 1821 0 Recovery for services SC of PA.
Lewis v. Fullerson 22 Va. 15 1821 0 Suit for freedom SC of Appeals VA
Lingan v. Henderson 1 Bland 236 1821 1 Maryland
Garretson v. Lingan 10 F. Cas. 46 1821 1 United States
Van Horne v. Fonda 5 Johns. Ch. 388 1821 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
United States v. Kennedy 26 F. Cas. 762 1821 0 Indictment of slave trader Circuit Court, D. PA.
Petry v. Christy 19 Johns. 53 1821 0 Recovery for freedom SC of New York
Van Alst v. Hunter 5 Johns. Ch. 148 1821 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
Hepburn v. Sewell 5 H. & J. 211 1821 0 Maryland
Burke v. Levy's Executors 22 Va. 1 1821 1 Virginia