# Strader v. Graham

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{{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.](/source/Benjamin_Chew_Howard) 82; 13 [L. Ed.](/source/L._Ed.) 337
| Prior = 
| Subsequent = 
| Holding = 
| Majority = Taney
| JoinMajority = Wayne, McKinley, Daniel, Nelson, Woodbury, Grier
| Concurrence = McLean
| Concurrence2 = Catron
| LawsApplied = [Northwest Ordinance of 1787](/source/Northwest_Ordinance)
}}
'''''Strader v. Graham''''', 51 U.S. (10 How.) 82 (1851), was a [US Supreme Court](/source/US_Supreme_Court) decision that held that the status of three slaves who went from [Kentucky](/source/Kentucky) to [Indiana](/source/Indiana) and [Ohio](/source/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](/source/Cincinnati), Ohio, aboard a steamboat owned by Jacob Strader and James Gorman and piloted by John Armstrong. The slaves later escaped to [Canada](/source/Canada). The US Supreme Court recognized the authority of the [Northwest Ordinance](/source/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](/source/American_slave_court_cases)
*[List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 51](/source/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases%2C_volume_51)

==References==
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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}}
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 | loc =http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep051/usrep051082/usrep051082.pdf
 | openjurist =https://openjurist.org/51/us/82
 }}

Category:United States Supreme Court cases in 1851
Category:United States Supreme Court cases
Category:United States slavery case law
Category:United States Supreme Court cases of the Taney Court
Category:African-American history of Ohio
Category:African-American history of Kentucky

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