Report of the Holden slave case
Subtitle: tried at the January term of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Worcester, A.D. 1839
Contributors: Massachusetts. Court of Common Pleas (Worcester County); Holden Anti-Slavery Society (Holden, Mass.)
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Board of Directors of the Holden Anti-Slavery Society
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Worcester
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Trials (Conspiracy); Trials (Fraud); Replevin; Slaves; Legal status, laws
Other titles: Holden slave case
Notes: "The case of Commonwealth vs. Samuel Stratton, Samuel Foster, James E. Cheney, and Farnum White, Jun., who were charged in the indictment with a conspiracy to defraud Olivia Eames of Holden, of the voluntary services of her servant girl, named Anne"--p. [5]. The servant in question had been a slave before being brought to Massachusetts from Louisiana.

Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.