Hugh Garland and his partner, Lyman Norris, were victorious in Missouri Supreme Court in Scott v. Emerson. The majority opinion was written Justice William Scott. “Times now are not as they were,” wrote Scott “when the former decisions on this subject were made.” The dissent opinion was written by Justice now are not as they were, when the former decisions on this subject were made Hamilton Gamble, is Hampton-Sydney College graduate in 1817, a couple of years before Garland attended Hampden-Sydney College. “In this State, it has been recognized, from the beginning of the government, as a correct position in law, that a master who takes his slave to reside in a State or Territory where slavery is prohibited, thereby emancipates his slave,” he wrote. But that was not case, anymore—for a short time.
The Worldview of Hugh Garland’s Treatise on Slavery
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