North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : Nelson v Evans, December 1826.

Action for the slander that the plaintiff had broken into the defendant's home with a gun or had ordered his slave to do it. The defendant's counsel argued that before the slander there had been a general opinion in the neighbourhood that Nelson had ordered his slave to conduct the break-i...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
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Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
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