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In his A Biographical History of Blacks in America since 1528 (1971), Toppin explains the importance of Punch's case in the legal history of Virginia: Thus, the black man, John Punch, became a slave unlike the two white indentured servants who merely had to serve a longer term. This was the first known case in Virginia involving slavery. [27]
Though Casor was the first person who was declared an enslaved person in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America as punishment for escaping his captors in 1640 ...
A slave owned by Beatty had bought a slave girl Sally and manumitted her. Chief Justice John Rutledge instructed the jury that such an act of generosity on Sally's behalf should not be overturned. 1806: Hudgins v. Wright: Virginia Supreme Court: Jackey Wright and her two children were freed based on her claim of maternal descent from Native ...
Kent represented numerous slaves in their attempts to gain their freedom. He handled the case of a slave, Pompey, suing his master. [142] In 1766, Kent was the first lawyer in the United States to win a case to free a slave, Jenny Slew. [143] He also won a trial in the Old County Courthouse for a slave named Ceasar Watson (1771). [144]
In a 1916 article, John H. Russell wrote, "Indeed no earlier record, to our knowledge, has been found of judicial support given to slavery in Virginia except as a punishment for a crime." [ 9 ] Russell makes that distinction because in 1640, John Punch "was reduced from his former condition of servitude for a limited time to a condition of ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A family death in 1858 left Ben Affleck's great-great-great grandfather with legal custody of his mother-in-law's most valuable property — her slaves. There was Cuffey ...
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A ruling by a Washington D.C. judge on Monday has barred the Proud Boys from selling merchandise using its name or symbols without permission from a Black church in the same city.