Lemmon v. New York
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lemmon-v-new-york-301-14011360
title:
Lemmon v. New York
text:
Lemmon v. New York, or Lemmon v. The People (1860), popularly known as the Lemmon Slave Case, was a freedom suit initiated in 1852 by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was granted by the Superior Court in New York City, a decision upheld by the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War. The decision mandated the release of eight slaves, including six children, brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, Jonathan and Juli
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Nineteenth-century freedom suit
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmon_v._New_York
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date modified:
2023-12-07T02:41:22Z
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