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This case was a precedent for the following one. 1781: Quock Walker v. Jennison: Worcester County Court of Common Pleas: Jennison's slave, Quock Walker, was found to be a freedman on the basis that slavery was contrary to the Bible and the Massachusetts Constitution. 1783: Commonwealth v. Jennison: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe, [1] the case concerned a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé USA and Cargill for aiding and abetting child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire by purchasing from cocoa producers that utilize child slave labor from Mali. The plaintiffs, who were former slave laborers in the cocoa farms, brought their claim in U.S ...
Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often based on descent from a free maternal ancestor, or time held as a resident in a free state or territory.
Residents of a small county in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to have a Confederate-era monument to “faithful slaves” removed from outside the county courthouse.. The monument ...
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The lawsuit says the students’ words may have been offensive to some, but they are protected by the First Amendment. Slavery joke in Park Hill was ‘friendly banter,’ punishment was too harsh ...
Brown Case 2 - Prince Edward County, Virginia Gebhart v. Belton: 1952 33 Del. Ch. 144 Brown Case 2 - Claymont, Delaware Bolling v. Sharpe: 1954 347 U.S. 497 Brown companion case—dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in the District of Columbia: Browder v. Gayle: 1956 142 F. Supp. 707
Current and former inmates announced a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery," saying prisoners are forced to work for little pay — and ...