freedom suit
lawsuits filed by enslaved people against slaveholders to assert their freedom, mainly in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States
United States v. The Amistad
legal case
Matson Trial
1847 US trial involving Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1857 U.S. Supreme Court case on the citizenship of African-Americans
Hudgins v. Wright
1806 freedom suit in Virginia
Mahoney v Ashton
court case