Violet

First Name: Violet
Description: 
negro woman (slave)
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths aforesaid do say, that the aforesaid Violet in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, voluntarily and feloniously herself did kill

COD Short Description: 
killed self
Original Record: 
2353
Owner: 
John Dinkins

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