Harry v. Decker & Hopkins
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harry-v-decker-hopkins-197-12277547
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Harry v. Decker & Hopkins
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Harry v. Decker & Hopkins (1818) was a freedom suit in which the Supreme Court of Mississippi ruled that the three slaves in the case were freed based on prior residence in the Northwest Territory, established as free in 1787. Mississippi's court was the first in the South to rule on this issue and created a precedent in transit cases that was widely observed by slave state courts. In response to a challenge related to Virginia having ceded this territory and the defendant asserting this protect
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1818 freedom suit in Mississippi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_v._Decker_%26_Hopkins
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2023-09-13T02:20:32Z
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