Harriet, a woman of color, asserts that Lucinda Carrington took her and her mother from Kentucky to Illinois when the Carringtons moved in October 1829. She further charges that Carrington kept her and her mother in Illinois until the end of December, "during all of which time the said Lucinda required Services of your Petitioner & her mother as her slaves & kept your Petitioners mother at labor as such slave in her family." Harriet informs the court that Carrington sent them to Missouri to be hired out when the neighbors began to talk about the two slaves being free. She relates that she and her mother were returned to Illinois after working in Missouri for nine months and were kept as slaves by Mrs. Carrington for another two months before they were sold to Samuel T. McKinney. Currently held by McKinney or Thomas D. James, "a negro trader," Harriet "prays that she may be permitted to sue as a poor person to Establish her freedom."
Result: Petition granted; harriet vs. samuel t. mckinney, william walker, thomas d. james, plea of trespass filed, discontinued; harriet vs. samuel t. mckinney filed, granted.
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Repository: Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri
