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Rebecca A. Moore v. John Hempstead. Cover

 

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Law Commissioners' Court

October Term 1854, No. 110

Moore, Rebecca A., In the matter of Habeas Corpus

Arrested under suspicion of being a runaway slave; petitioner was a free person of color; was at one time property of James Wilson of Pinkneyville, Mississippi; Wilson relocated to Cincinnati and sold her to Dr. Noah S. Webb of Pinkneyville; remained his property until his death; emancipated by his will

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Rebecca A. Moore v. John Hempstead. Cover.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed December 11, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0050.001

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