George Cooper

  • Born: December 1778
  • Place of birth: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
  • Died: Unknown
  • Place of death: Unknown
  • Ancestry: Mixed
  • Sex: Male
  • Status: 31-year term slave
  • Mother: Bett (inferred)
  • Father: Bill (inferred)
  • Lived in: Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Outcome: Successfully sued for freedom
  • Enslaver(s): William Holmes, Samuel Laird
  • Notes: Fled bondage in Carlisle in 1802 and successfully sued for freedom in Philadelphia
  • Sources: Cumberland County Slave Return; Cumberland County Slave Register; 1840 census (inferred); Daniel E. Meaders, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper’s Tales of Oppression, 1780-1843 (New York: Garland, 1994), 146-7