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...
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Emancipation Day (redirect from Quock Walker Day)
in Montgomery County. Massachusetts Emancipation Day, also known as Quock Walker Day, was established by the state legislature in 2022 and first legally...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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convention that drafted the Massachusetts Constitution in 1779. He supported Quock Walker, a former slave seeking confirmation of his freedom under that constitution...
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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...
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Founding of Vermont. Vermont Historical Society. ISBN 978-0934720656. "The Quock Walker Case". Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (mass.gov). Archived from...
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David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his...
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Walker (born 2000), American football player Quentin Walker (born 1961), American football player Quock Walker (1753–??), American slave Ramon Walker...
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ISBN 9780313292262 The Massachusetts Constitution, Judicial Review and Slavery – The Quock Walker Case Archived 2009-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, Massachusetts Judicial...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 (which, in the Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker cases, effectively made Massachusetts the first state to have a constitution...
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Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...
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Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...
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Constitution of Massachusetts, which effectively (the Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker cases as interpreted by William Cushing) made Massachusetts the first...
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without representation." 1781 In challenges by Elizabeth Freeman and Quock Walker, two independent county courts in Massachusetts found slavery illegal...
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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...
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investigator and anti-torture advocate Lucy Stone − suffragist and abolitionist Quock Walker − slave in Worcester County; won freedom on basis of state constitution...
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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...
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after the Revolutionary War, rulings in freedom suits by Mum Bett and Quock Walker established that its representation of rights was incompatible with slavery...
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Studies Russell's Fossil Museum David Oliver Allen, missionary and author Quock Walker, an American slave who won his freedom from Massachusetts Supreme Court...
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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...
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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...
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Supreme Court decision Freedom suits of 1781 (See Elizabeth Freeman - Quock Walker) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (See: Anthony Burns - Shadrach Minkins -...
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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...
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It is often stated that Benjamin granted Prince his freedom, but the Quock Walker case effectively outlawed the practice when Prince returned from the...
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