Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Holt v. Bacon 30 Conn. 21 1861 0 Seizure of alleged slaving vessel Connecticut
Atwood v. Craig 3 Stew. & P. 21 1832 0 Sale of Enslaved Personsdispute Alabama
Gunn v. Janes 40 Ga. 175 1869 0 Slave contact dispute Georgia
Prater v. Frazier 11 Ark. 249 1850 0 Will & trust Arkansas
Eberlin v. Mayor of Mobile 30 Ala. 548 1857 0 Indictment for Doing Business with Enslaved Persons Alabama
Ex parte Norton 44 Ala. 177 1870 0 Breach of warranty Alabama
Mangun v. Webster 7 Gill 78 1848 0 Maryland
Martin v. Foster's Executor 38 Ala. 688 1863 0 Will & trust Alabama
Walker v. Blassingame 17 Ala. 810 1850 0 Will & trust Alabama
Albertson, Douglass & Co. v. Goldsby 28 Ala. 711 1856 0 Levy on enslaved person Alabama
Waters v. Dashiell 1 Md. 455 1851 0 Maryland
Mayfield v. Clifton 3 Stew. 375 1831 0 Will & trust Alabama
Hawkins v. Hudson 45 Ala. 482 1871 0 Action of ejectment Alabama
Linda v. Hudson 55 Mass. 385 1848 0 Action for illegally seizing slave Massachusetts
Brown v. Thorndike 32 Mass. 388 1834 0 Will & Trust Massachusetts
Lazarus v. Commonwealth Insurance 36 Mass. 81 1837 0 Insurance dispute over property including slaves Massachusetts
United States v. Flowery 25 F. Cas. 1124 1845 0 Indictment of slave trader United States
Reece v. Johnson 20 F. Cas. 403 1829 0 Title dispute Arkansas
Barker v. Coleman 35 Ala. 221 1859 0 Breach of Warranty Alabama
Dillard v. Dillard 22 Tenn. 41 1842 0 Tennessee