Report of the Holden slave case, 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.)
Publisher: Printed by Colton & Howland
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Worcester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Stratton, Samuel, fl. 1839 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Trials (Conspiracy) -- Massachusetts -- Worcester; Trials (Fraud) -- Massachusetts -- Worcester; Replevin -- Massachusetts; Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Massachusetts
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Other titles: Holden slave case
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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"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.
"Published by the board of directors of the Holden Anti-Slavery Society."