This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1837 |
| Citation: | 9 G. & J. 19 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Concluding that an agreement for freedom has the same significance as a manumission. If this agreement included a a forbadance upon re-entering the state, after manumission the slave has the same property rights against him as any out-of-state citizen. |
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| Full name: | Bland and Woolfolk vs. Negro Beverly Dowling |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |