Quock Walker, also known as Kwaku or Quork Walker (c. 1753 – ?), was an enslaved American who sued for and won his freedom suit case in June 1781. The...

in Montgomery County. Massachusetts Emancipation Day, also known as Quock Walker Day, was established by the state legislature in 2022 and first legally...

Quock may refer to: Quock Walker (1753-?), African American slave who sued for and won his freedom Audrey Quock (born 1977), Asian American model and...

Lewis and Minor Walker Lewis. His full name was Kwaku Walker Lewis, named after his maternal uncle, Quock Walker also known as Kwaku Walker. (Kwaku means...

series of cases which became known as the Quock Walker cases. Nathaniel Jennison was arrested for beating Quock Walker and indicted on a criminal charge of...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appellate review of Quock Walker's freedom suit. When the court upheld Walker's freedom under the state's constitution, the ruling...

convention that drafted the Massachusetts Constitution in 1779. He supported Quock Walker, a former slave seeking confirmation of his freedom under that constitution...

During the years 1781 to 1783, in three related cases known today as "the Quock Walker case," the Supreme Judicial Court applied the principle of judicial review...

Founding of Vermont. Vermont Historical Society. ISBN 978-0934720656. "The Quock Walker Case". Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (mass.gov). Archived from...

David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his...

Walker (born 2000), American football player Quentin Walker (born 1961), American football player Quock Walker (1753–??), American slave Ramon Walker...

ISBN 9780313292262 The Massachusetts Constitution, Judicial Review and Slavery – The Quock Walker Case Archived 2009-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, Massachusetts Judicial...

the state. In 1783, Cushing presided over a series of cases involving Quock Walker, a slave who filed a freedom suit based on the language of the new state...

state. In this sense, the Walker case is seen as a United States counterpart to the Somerset Case. In the case of Quock Walker, Massachusetts' Chief Justice...

Massachusetts, Grand Master 1831–1832, son-in-law of Barzillai Lew. He and David Walker oversaw the publication of John T. Hilton's An Address, Delivered Before...

Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 (which, in the Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker cases, effectively made Massachusetts the first state to have a constitution...

Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...

Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...

Constitution of Massachusetts, which effectively (the Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker cases as interpreted by William Cushing) made Massachusetts the first...

without representation." 1781 In challenges by Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker, two independent county courts in Massachusetts found slavery illegal...

freedom. A few years later, Quock Walker, a black slave, sued his master for false imprisonment; the jury found for Walker and awarded him damages of £50...

investigator and anti-torture advocate Lucy Stone − suffragist and abolitionist Quock Walker − slave in Worcester County; won freedom on basis of state constitution...

slavery was successfully challenged in court in 1783 in a freedom suit by Quock Walker; he said that slavery was in contradiction to the state's new constitution...

after the Revolutionary War, rulings in freedom suits by Mum Bett and Quock Walker established that its representation of rights was incompatible with slavery...

Studies Russell's Fossil Museum David Oliver Allen, missionary and author Quock Walker, an American slave who won his freedom from Massachusetts Supreme Court...

Surinam. His name is given to the plant genus Quassia. Quock Walker, also known as Kwaku or Quok Walker, sued for and won his freedom in 1781 in a case citing...

land to settle on in what later became Peterborough. Following the 1780 Quock Walker court case, Amos and Sarah Peters were freed from slavery. Another story...

Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...

effectively ended in Massachusetts with this ruling in a freedom suit by Quock Walker. This led to an increase in enslaved men and women suing for their freedom...

It is often stated that Benjamin granted Prince his freedom, but the Quock Walker case effectively outlawed the practice when Prince returned from the...