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Louisiana, Supreme Court, Opelousas : Leonora, free woman of colour v Scott, Executor, September 1855 [printed].

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Louisiana : Supreme Court, 1855.
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) and Earl K. Long Library
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Plaintiff, a freed woman of colour, seeks to claim a legacy that Douglas Wilkins to bequeathed their child. The child had died before the testator, and the court considered whether or not the the legacy had lapsed by the child's death and fallen to the residuary legatee. Douglas Wilkins had bequeathed that upon his death, the plaintiff and her children should be emancipated, and that the children should be sent to a state where slavery was not allowed and given an education there. Judgement affirmed for the plaintiff.
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Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
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Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
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Material sourced from the Louisiana and Special Collections of the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
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