topic: slavery

United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad 40 U.S. 518 (1841)

Ableman v. Booth 62 U.S. 506 (1858)

Slaughterhouse Cases 83 U.S. 36 (1872)

Civil Rights Cases 109 U.S. 3 (1883)

Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 (1896)