Hinds ruled that Brazealle was trying to evade Mississippi law against manumissions except when authorized by the state legislature, and the actions were invalid.
During their stay in Ohio, Elisha executed a deed of emancipation for the mother and son, and returned to his residence in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
In the 1860 edition of his memoir, escaped slave James Watkins gives a short summary of this case under the headline "Horrible Statement".
[1] In Frances Harper's 1892 novel Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, the principal character is the daughter of a Mississippi planter, who manumitted a slave who had nursed him through a near-fatal illness and then married her in Ohio.
After the planter's sudden death, his relatives successfully contest the manumission and reduce Iola and her mother to slavery.