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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Colemans v. Holladay 20 Va. 47 1817 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Duncan v. Cevallos' Ex'rs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 571 1817 0 Sales, fraud, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, evidence, witness testimony, recission Louisiana
Lavery v. Woodland 2 Del. Cas. 299 1817 0 Action of trover Delaware
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Bolling v. Bolling 19 Va. 334 1817 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Inhabitants of Stockbridge v. Inhabitants of West Stockbridge 14 Mass. 257 1817 0 Wrongful conveyance of slave Massachusetts
Burroughs's Adm'r. v. Anna 4 H. & J. 262 1817 0 Maryland
Trudeau's Ex'r. v. Robinette 4 Mart. (o.s.) 577 1817 0 Successions, emancipation, sales, freedom suit, property, evidence Louisiana
Duval's Executor v. Trent's Devisses 20 Va. 29 1817 1 Virginia
Inhabitants of Windsor v. Inhabitants of Hartford 2 Conn. 355 1817 0 Contract dispute Connecticut
Keys v. M'Fatridge 20 Va. 18 1817 1 Virginia
Commonwealth v. Hickerson 4 Va. 60 1817 1 Virginia
Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Holloway 3 Serg. & Rawl. 4 1817 0 Runaway slave charged with fornication and bastardy SC of PA.
Phillips's Lessee v. Robertson 5 Tenn. 154 1817 1 Tennessee
Arnold v. Hickman 20 Va. 15 1817 1 Virginia
Thompson v. Clarke 2 D.C. 145 1817 0 Freedom Petition/ wills United States
Findley v. Tipton 5 Tenn. 216 1817 1 Tennessee
Skinner v. Fleet 14 Johns. 263 1817 0 Recovery for slave SC of New York
Wilson v. Belinda 3 Serg. & Rawl. 396 1817 0 Faulty registration of slave SC of PA.