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He was born c. 1780 in Maryland.<ref name=jcc>{{cite journal|url=http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_20.pdf |journal=Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians |Volume=20 |date=May 2013 |author=J. Cavitt Clarke III |title=The Life of Joshua G. Clarke: Mississippi’s First Chancellor |page=1-10}}{{rp|1}} |
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Among other rulings, Clarke judged that killing a slave was murder because slaves were "reasonable creatures", and voted that slaves became freedmen by having lived in the [[Northwest Territory]] under the [[Ordinance of 1787]].<ref name=jcc/>{{rp|1}} |
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<ref name=fede>{{cite journal|url=http://fch.ju.edu/fch_vol_20.pdf |journal=Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians |Volume=20 |date=May 2013 |author=Andrew T. Fede |title=Judging Against the Grain? Reading Mississippi Supreme Court Judge Joshua G. Clarke’s Views on Slavery Law in Context |page=11-30}} |
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His home, [[Claremont (Port Gibson, Mississippi)]], built by him in 1826, is listed on the U.S. [[National Register of Historic Places]]. |
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<ref>[http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/fede-on-mississippi-supreme-court-judge.html]</ref> |
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Revision as of 20:48, 5 October 2016
Judge Joshua G. Clarke (c.1780-1828) was a first justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
He was born c. 1780 in Maryland.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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