Joseph Tom v. The Slave Ernest of Andre Marchesseau

ID: 1731 ~ Source: Historical Archives of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Courtesy of Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
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Filed January 1859.

This file appears in: Joseph Tom v. The Slave Ernest

By Mary Ann Wegmann
Could an enslaved child be seized and sold to pay for the expenses of raising him? No, the Louisiana Supreme Court (onced housed in Carrollton Courthouse) ruled in 1860, in a case originally decided…