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The UncommonWealth
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"Brooks, Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:14:27 -0400
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The 6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, in part: "In all criminal
prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public
trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime
shall have been committed...; to be confronted with the witnesses against
him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor[.]"

Fanny, an enslaved woman, did not have those rights. Read more in today's
The UncommonWealth.

https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2021/07/28/commonwealth-v-fanny/


*Vincent T. Brooks*
Senior Local Records Archivist
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23219
804-692-3525
Fax 804-692-2277
*The Uncommonwealth* <https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/>

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