{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox SCOTUS case | Litigants = Strader v. Graham | ArgueDate = | ArgueYear = | DecideDate = December | DecideYear = 1850 | FullName = Jacob Strader, James Gorman, and John Armstrong, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Christopher Graham | USVol = 51 | USPage = 82 | ParallelCitations = 10 How. 82; 13 L. Ed. 337 | Prior = | Subsequent = | Holding = | Majority = Taney | JoinMajority = Wayne, McKinley, Daniel, Nelson, Woodbury, Grier | Concurrence = McLean | Concurrence2 = Catron | LawsApplied = Northwest Ordinance of 1787 }} '''''Strader v. Graham''''', 51 U.S. (10 How.) 82 (1851), was a US Supreme Court decision that held that the status of three slaves who went from Kentucky to Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky law, rather than Ohio law.<ref>{{ussc|name=Strader v. Graham|51|82|1851|How.|10}}.</ref> The original plaintiff was Christopher Graham, whose three slaves had traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, aboard a steamboat owned by Jacob Strader and James Gorman and piloted by John Armstrong. The slaves later escaped to Canada. The US Supreme Court recognized the authority of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 over its applicable territories in ''Strader v. Graham'' but did not extend the Northwest Ordinance to cover the states that were later admitted to the Union.<ref>''Strader v. Graham'', 51 U.S. at 96-97; Robert G. Schwemm, Strader v. Graham: Kentucky's Contribution to National Slavery Litigation and the Dred Scott Decision, 97 Ky. L.J. 353 (2008-2009)</ref>

==See also== *American slave court cases *List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 51

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==External links== *{{wikisource-inline|Strader v. Graham}} * {{caselaw source | case = ''Strader v. Graham'', {{ussc|51|82|1851|How.|10|el=no}} | justia =https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/51/82/ | loc =http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep051/usrep051082/usrep051082.pdf | openjurist =https://openjurist.org/51/us/82 }}

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