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This Day in Legal History: In re Turner
On October 13, 1867, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, sitting as a circuit judge in Baltimore, decided In re Turner. Maryland had abolished slavery in its 1864 constitution, but former enslavers quickly found a workaround: a state apprenticeship law that let courts bind Black children to white employers, often their former masters, without their parents’ consent. White children could not be bound under the same terms. Elizabeth Turner was one of those children, and with help from the Freedmen’s Bureau, her case came before Chase on a petition for habeas…
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