Another legal precedent when it came to slave law in the 19th century was over the freedom of Josephine Louise or Marie Louise v. Marot. The nature of Josephine Louise's case was that she had been emancipated after living in France. As a result she couldn't be returned to slavery upon returning to the U.S. […]
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