Box 104 Fold
St Louis Circuit Court
Civil Case File No. 86
November 1825
John Plackett & May, his wife
v.
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Habeas Corpus
(confined to jail for maltreatment of slave, Lucy)
Bail $1000 a piece
several witnesses to whipping, beating, pulling with rope, and throwing into fire of slave girl Lucy, 8-11 years old.
Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “John Plackett and May Plackett v. Missouri. Cover.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0026.001
