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Who were Margaret Morgan and Edward Prigg?
Their case was examined by the U.S. Supreme Court in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, which said slavery was so fundamental to the nation's formation that the rights of slave owners to “this species of property ...
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Who Were Margaret Morgan and Edward Prigg?
Their case was examined by the U.S. Supreme Court in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, which said slavery was so fundamental to the nation's formation that the rights of slave owners to “this species of ...
Project finds slavery-era ruling still cited
An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...