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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Lamb v. Trogden 22 N.C. 190 1838 0 North Carolina
Bradshaw v. Ellis 22 N.C. 20 1838 0 North Carolina
Ham v. Ham 21 N.C. 598 1837 0 North Carolina
Felton v. Billups 21 N.C. 584 1837 0 North Carolina
M'Connell v. Peobles 21 N.C. 601 1837 0 North Carolina
Lamb v. Gatlin 22 N.C. 37 1838 0 North Carolina
Commonwealth v. Turner 5 Rand. 678 1827 0 General Ct of VA
Freeman v. Hill 21 N.C. 389 1836 0 North Carolina
State v. Ritchie 19 N.C. 29 1836 0 North Carolina
Simms v. Garrot 21 N.C. 393 1836 0 North Carolina
Knight v. Leak 19 N.C. 133 1836 0 North Carolina
Black v. Ray 21 N.C. 443 1836 0 North Carolina
Alston v. Hamlin 19 N.C. 115 1836 0 North Carolina
Gibbons v. Dunn 18 N.C. 446 1836 0 North Carolina
Blue v. Patterson 21 N.C. 457 1836 0 North Carolina
Jemison v. Smith 37 Ala. 185 1861 0 Alabama
Black v. Ray 18 N.C. 334 1835 0 North Carolina
Morton v. Edwards 15 N.C. 507 1834 0 North Carolina
Morgan v. Cone 18 N.C. 234 1835 0 North Carolina
Jones v. Trawick’s Adm’r 31 Ala. 253 1857 0 Alabama