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Anna, a woman of color vs. Thomas Higginbotham

August 15, 1831 - November 29, 1831

Petitioned on August 15, 1831

Filed before the St. Louis County Circuit Court (St. Louis, Missouri)

Case ID: hc.case.mo.0148

Case Summary

This writ was submitted on August 15, 1831, for the purpose of freeing Anna from her enslavement by Thomas Higginbotham. She claimed to have been sent to Illinois with the son-in-law of Thomas Higginbotham, John Parkinson. The outcome is unclear.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

  • Interpersonal

Petition subtype(s)

  • Wrongful enslavement

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

State

  • Missouri

People

Source Materials

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Repository(s)

Case citation

St. Louis Circuit Court, July Term, 1831

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Type of source(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Cite this page

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Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Anna, a woman of color vs. Thomas Higginbotham.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed April 4, 2025. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/cases/item/hc.case.mo.0148

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