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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Andry v. Foy 6 Mart. (o.s.) 689 1819 0 Sales, promissory notes, successions, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, contracts Louisiana
Pierce v. Curtis 6 Mart. (o.s.) 418 1819 0 Fraud, sales, seizure, debts Louisiana
Tregre v. Tregre 6 Mart. (o.s.) 665 1819 0 Successions, property, partition, community property Louisiana
Gravier v. Livingston 6 Mart. (o.s.) 281 1819 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, adverse possession Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 6 Mart. (o.s.) 256 1819 0 Agency, partneships, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, evidence Louisiana
State v. Cherry 7 N.C. 7 1819 0 Homicide North Carolina
Metayer v. Metayer 6 Mart. (o.s.) 16 1819 0 Emancipation, freedom suit, false imprisonment, damages, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Fouque's Syndics v. Vigniaud 6 Mart. (o.s.) 423 1819 0 Property, debts, sales, consideration, promissory notes, parol evidence Louisiana
Hannie v. Browder 6 Mart. (o.s.) 14 1819 0 Community property, successions, sales, privileges, property, mortgages Louisiana
Sam v. Green 2 D.C. 165 1819 0 Freedom Petition United States
Poindexter v. Waddy 20 Va. 418 1819 1 Virginia
Edens v. Williams’s Executor 7 N.C. 27 1819 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Taliaferro v. Gatewood 20 Va. 320 1819 1 Virginia
Liggon v. Fuqua 20 Va. 281 1819 1 Virginia
Commonwealth v. Moore 4 Va. 155 1819 0 Suffering a slave General Ct of VA
Mackey v. Executors of Collins 11 S.C.L. 186 1819 1 South Carolina
Grant v. Bontz 2 D.C. 184 1819 0 Sales United States
State v. Jim 7 N.C. 3 1819 0 Burglary North Carolina
The Caroline 5 F. Cas. 90 1819 0 Illegal importation of slaves Cir Ct, D of VA
Hudson v. Hudson's Administrator 20 Va. 352 1819 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA