News Article Announcing an Ohioan's Petition for an Enslaved Person Named Jacob Eye to Be Freed

Authors

Ebenezer Lane

Files

Description

News article announcing that a man from Ohio, Ebenezer Lane, has petitioned for the freedom of an enslaved man named Jacob Eye, who belonged to Lane but was living in New Orleans; however, a jury refused to grant his request

ISBN

MUM00431_stone_b1_f4_041

Publication Date

2-17-1834

Relational Format

archival material

City

New Orleans (La.)

Keywords

Enslaved persons ; Slaveholders ; Slavery -- Louisiana ; Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- Sources

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Recommended Citation

Lane, Ebenezer, "News Article Announcing an Ohioan's Petition for an Enslaved Person Named Jacob Eye to Be Freed" (1834). Lantern Project. 126.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lanternproject/126

Original Format

article

Original Collection

Alfred H. Stone Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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