North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : State v Fore and Chesnut, June 1841.
Fore, a free man of colour, and Chesnut, a white woman, were arraigned by the state on charges of unlawfully cohabiting and having a child. Their counsel offered in their defence a marriage licence from the county clerk bearing a date subsequent to the passing of a law prohibiting marriage between w...
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