Prigg v Pennsylvania (1842)The first state law to make it illegal to remove a person from the state for the purpose of enslaving them. The first state challenge to...
Gordon v Farrar (1847)The Michigan Supreme Court denied Gordon, who was one-fourth African, the right to vote by overturning a circuit court decision that...
Jones v Van Zandt (1847)This was a US Supreme Court case that decided the constitutionality of slavery. Van Zandt, who had previously been a slaveholder, became...
Giltner v Gorham (1848)This case involves a black family whose patriarch was named Adam Crosswhite, who escaped from a holder of persons who had used them as...