Hearsay

Items with "Legal Concept: Hearsay"
Title	Description	Class
Mima Queen & Louisa Queen v. John Hepburn		This unsuccessful freedom suit, brought by Mina Queen, reflected legal challenges to slavery and hinged on the Supreme Court's decison that hearsay about family genealogy could not be used as evidence, setting later precedent.
The Timing of Queen v. Hepburn: An exploration of African American Networks in the Early Republic		This essay explores the phenomenon of multigenerational networks of freedom-making through the petition for freedom cases of the Queen family in Washington, D.C.
Unis et al. v. Charlton's Administrator et al.		In this freedom suit, the descendants of a Black woman named Flora claimed their freedom on the grounds that Flora was free before being abducted and sold into slavery in Virginia. Between 1826-1855, a series of cases bounced around county and appellate courts in Virginia before finally being decided against freedom for Flora's descendants.

Title: Hearsay
Description: Hearsay is a statement or testimony made in court about words or actions the witness or deponent did not directly observe. This "second-hand" assertion is considered hearsay when it is offered during court proceedings to assert truth. Hearsay can include verbal utterances, written text, or nonverbal information. Hearsay was first applied as a rule of evidence to exclude testimony about the status of free ancestors by enslaved families in freedom suits, especially the 1813 Supreme Court decision in Mima Queen v. Hepburn. The hearsay rule, as it is called today, was used to disallow testimony in favor of freedom.

Title: Hearsay
Description: Hearsay is a statement or testimony made in court about words or actions the witness or deponent did not directly observe. This "second-hand" assertion is considered hearsay when it is offered during court proceedings to assert truth. Hearsay can include verbal utterances, written text, or nonverbal information. Hearsay was first applied as a rule of evidence to exclude testimony about the status of free ancestors by enslaved families in freedom suits, especially the 1813 Supreme Court decision in Mima Queen v. Hepburn. The hearsay rule, as it is called today, was used to disallow testimony in favor of freedom.

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