Petition #20881902

• Orleans Parish, Louisiana. February 26, 1819. - February 26, 1819.
• Court: District
• Salutation: To the Honorable Joshua Lewis Judge of the District Court of the first Judicial District of the State of Louisiana

Abstract

Sarah Rollins, a woman of color, claims that she was born free in 1802 in the state of Pennsylvania. Since that time, she has been taken illegally into North Carolina and Kentucky before being sold as a slave, in 1818, to Baptiste St. Amand of New Orleans by one Hayden Edmonds. Rollins asserts that she is ready to prove that she is "now and always was entitled to her liberty & freedom." She prays that the court will enjoin St. Amand to "liberate" her and to pay the amount of her wages during the time she was in his service, plus "costs and damages."

Result: Partially granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Order, 26 February 1819; Court Record, 26 February 1819
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 20881902

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Records of the First Judicial District Court, Case Records
• Microfilm: Reel #4, Louisiana Collection

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• Kidnapping (FPOC)