Mary Robinson, "a woman of Colour," asserts that she is "intitled to her Freedom." She informs the court that she "was taken from the city of St Louis" to the state of Illinois by Amos L. Corson, "her then master and owner and kept in slavery contrary to her your petitioners will ... for the space of time at least six months." She further recalls that she was later returned to St. Louis, where she "was kept in slavery by one Ringrose D. Watson." Robinson declares that she "has good reason to believe and does believe she will be taken Beyond the Jurisdiction of this Court and kept in slavery unless the said Watson and Corson are restrained by this court." The petitioner therefore "prays to be permitted to sue as a free person and to be placed under the protection of this Court."
Result: Petition granted; plea of trespass filed.
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Repository: Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri
