This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1858 |
| Citation: | 12 Md. 87 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
| People: | Ellen, Thomas, Nancy, Beckey, Elizabeth Ellen, James Henry |
| Short Summary: | Testator who manumitted slaves by will and intended that these manumitted slaves enjoyed his land. Concluding that negroes living on the land contradicts policies of law and that instead the property should be rented out to the financial benefit of the manumitted slaves to enable them to remove to Liberia or somewhere else beyond the State. |
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| Full name: | Joseph Brown and others' Lessee, vs. Rebecca Brown |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |