Baptiste v. De Volunbrun
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore city court. This was a •petition freedom, and was submitted to Baltimore city court, UP011 tiie following statement of facts, viz.
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Appeal from Baltimore city court. This was a •petition freedom, and was submitted to Baltimore city court, UP011 tiie following statement of facts, viz. That the defondant, (the appellee,) being driven from the island of Saint Domingo by an insurrection of the negroes, fled to the city of New-York, carrying witli her the petitioners, (the appellants.) She arrived at New-York in 1797, but finding the climate unfavouvable to her health, removed to the city of Baltimore, with the petitioners as part of her * . . A * hmuly, m 1802. JLhat she has. constantly and uniformly declared her intention to…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
delivered the Qpmiou of the court.
The claim of the appellants to freedom is founded on the first section of the act of assembly of 1796, ch. 67, by which it is enacted, “that it shall not be lawful to import or bring into this state, by land or water, any negro, mulatto, or other slave, for sale, or to reside within this state; and any person brought into this state as a slave, contrary to this act, if a slave before, shall thereupon • immediately cease to be the property of the person or persons so importing or bringing such slave within this state, and shall be free.” The object of the law…
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