Title

Nancy, a woman of color or negro vs Joseph Butler Clark County, Arkansas Territory, c1828-01. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Nancy, a woman of color or negro vs Joseph Butler Clark County, Arkansas Territory, c1828-01. Document records the efforts of Nancy, apparently a free African-American woman, to recover damages for assault and battery and false imprisonment (servitude) against a Joseph Butler, who '...assaulted the plaintiff and [hit?] then and there beat, bruised wound, took and imprisoned and restrained her of her liberty and held her in servitude...against the law of the land and against will of plaintiff and other injurers [?] the said Joseph Butler [there?] within that term did to the plaintiff to her damage two thousand dollars therefore she brings her suit...'.

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Reference

HRM23A18_156

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Keywords

people black library country law crime violence color attack text location century imprisonment handwriting document sepia assault imprisoned concept violent African American African-American afro-american lettering public library MONOCHROME United States of America Colour 19th century legal document court case New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL heritage American America USA compensation united states Unknown cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art documents 19th-century Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture bodily harm false imprisonment