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Louisiana, Supreme Court, New Orleans : State v Powell, May 1851 [printed].

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Louisiana : Supreme Court, 1851.
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Powell was convicted of larceny. He appealed on the basis that he was of unmixed African blood and therefore should be presumed to be a slave, and that, as such, the lower court had had no jurisdiction to try him. The Supreme Court ruled that he had been tried as a free man of colour and there was no evidence to rebut this presumption; though he had not been explicitly described on the indictment as a free man of colour, this was not a strict requirement. Judgment affirmed.
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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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