Petition #20382214

• Kent County, Delaware. filing started May 1822.
• Court: County

Abstract

Eve Laws states that Manlove Chambers holds her as a slave. She asks that Chambers be summoned to answer her complaint.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: Depositions, John P. George, Ann Purdon, John Laws, Daniel Laws, William Williams, Sarah Laws, Martha H. Laws, and Elijah Laws, 20 May 1822; Bill of Sale, Roger Wright to Manlove Chambers, Sussex County, November 1821; Bill of Sale, Joshua Laws to Roger Wright, Sussex County, 11 December 1819
• Pages of related documents: 18

7 people are documented within petition 20382214

• 3 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 2 Petitioners
• 2 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• Records of the Court of Common Pleas
• Microfilm: Reel 2

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• Purchase/Sale (enslaved children)
• FPOC sues white
• Freedom seekers
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Slave trade (domestic)
• Family separated (Black)
• Family kept together (Black)