This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...she was taken to St. Louis and sold to Manuel Lisa, and afterwards conveyed from him to Pierre Chouteau. The court held her to be a slave, distinguishing this from the preceding case as follows: " The person holding John Merry in slavery lost no right which had been secured to him by the State of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...she was taken to St. Louis and sold to Manuel Lisa, and afterwards conveyed from him to Pierre Chouteau. The court held her to be a slave, distinguishing this from the preceding case as follows: " The person holding John Merry in slavery lost no right which had been secured to him by the State of Virginia. But here is a different case. The defendant claims to hold the plaintiff in slavery through another, whose right was vested as early as the year 1782. It appears that either the general terms ' neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the territory ' must yield to the provision in the act of cession, or that the provision of that act must be violated. This it cannot be supposed Congress intended to do." 1 In the earlier period, therefore, while holding views on the subject of slavery which forbid any supposition that they desired to encourage it, the court of this state construed the Ordinance to be a gradual emancipatory act, leaving the slaves in Northwest Territory as they were, except that their children born thereafter were free-born, and preventing any subsequent importation of slaves from any point. 1 John Merry v. Tifl-in and Menard, 1 M0. 725. A decision similar to that in the John Merry case was afterwards made by the Missouri court in the case of one of the French slaves named Aspasia. She was born, after the passage of the Ordinance, at Kaskaskia, of a mother who was a slave prior to the Ordinance. She was held in slavery in Illinois until 1821, when she was purchased by Pierre Menard and soon afterwards given by him to his son-in-law, Francis Chouteau, who resided at St. Louis. Chouteau kept her until 1827, and then, on account of her claiming freedom, returned her to Menard. She sued...
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