*On this date in 1852, the Perkins Escapee case was before Judge Wells of the California Supreme Court. The petition and affidavit were submitted by the prisoners Robert, Carter Perkins, and Sandy Jones.
They were seized on June 1st, 1852, without process of law. They were taken before B. D. Fry, a justice of the peace of Sacramento, claiming C. S. Perkins of Mississippi was removed from the State of California to Mississippi, under the act of California, as fugitives from labor.
Slaves brought into California before her admission into the union passed the California Fugitive Labor Act on April 15th, 1852. Before statehood, slavery was abolished throughout the (then) Mexican Republic in 1829.
