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MSA SC 5339-74-8
Collection	Research and Educational Projects at the Maryland State Archives
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Dates	1867
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24 Fed. Cas. 337-340; Petition of Elizabeth Turner (colored) by her next friend Charles Henry Minowky for Habeas Corpus. Filed September 18, 1867. This was the first in a series of cases brought relating to apprenticeship of the children of former slaves. Useful Secondary Sources: Fuke, Richard Paul. Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland. New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. Hyman, Harold M. The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White. University Press of Kansas: Landmark Law Cases and American Society. July 16, 2003. http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/hymrec.html (last accessed, 2004/09/06) Entire original case papers, and opinion, including Chase's signature, still in the files of the Federal District Court, Baltimore, MSA SC 5463-1-8, as well as the case as reported in the Federal Reporter, 24 Fed. Cas. 337-340.
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