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Noun Concept
Categories: Freedom suits in the United States, Articles with short description, Slavery in the United States, Legal history of the United States, United States slavery case law
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freedom suit  freedom suits  petition for freedom  suit for freedom
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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. Wikipedia
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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. Wikipedia
Lawsuits filed by enslaved people against slaveholders to assert their freedom, mainly in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States Wikidata
IS A
lawsuit
HAS KIND
United States v. The Amistad
Mahoney v Ashton
Rachel v. Walker
HAS INSTANCE
Dred Scott v. Sandford
APPLIES TO JURISDICTION
United States
OBJECTIVE OF PROJECT OR ACTION
emancipation
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freedom suit
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freedom suit
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freedom suits
Wikidata Alias
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petition for freedom, suit for freedom

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