Slavery & Abolition in the US
Select Publications of the 1800s
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New York (State). Court of Appeals.
N.Y. (State). Court of Appeals. Report of the Lemmon Slave Case: Containing Points and Arguments of Counsel on Both Sides, and Opinions of All the Judges. New York: Horace Greeley & Company, 1860.
In this case, New York ruled definitively against slave owners being able to hold their slaves when traveling in a free state.
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