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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stratton, Samuel, fl. 1839.
- 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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