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Report of the Holden slave case tried at the January term of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Worcester, A.D. 1839.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery, Part 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stratton, Samuel, fl. 1839.
Contributor:
Massachusetts. Court of Common Pleas (Worcester County)
Holden Anti-Slavery Society (Holden, Mass.)
Series:
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Stratton, Samuel, fl. 1839--Trials, litigation, etc.
Stratton, Samuel.
Eames, Olivia--Trials, litigation, etc.
Eames, Olivia.
Trials (Conspiracy)--Massachusetts--Worcester.
Trials (Conspiracy).
Trials (Fraud)--Massachusetts--Worcester.
Trials (Fraud).
Replevin--Massachusetts.
Replevin.
Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Massachusetts.
Enslaved persons.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (32 p. )
Other Title:
Report of the Holden slave case
Place of Publication:
Worcester : Board of Directors of the Holden Anti-Slavery Society, 1839 (Worcester: Printed by Colton & Howland)
Notes:
"The case of Commonwealth vs. Samuel Stratton, Samuel Foster, James E. Cheney, and Farnum White, Jun., who were charged in the indictment with a conspiracy to defraud Olivia Eames of Holden, of the voluntary services of her servant girl, named Anne"--p. [5]. The servant in question had been a slave before being brought to Massachusetts from Louisiana.
Reproduction of the original from the Oberlin College Library. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
OCLC:
85795044

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