Jane

First Name: Jane
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Age Descriptor: 
30 or 60
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she came to her death on sabath the eighth day of March?at the residence of her master A. A. Morse, of deceased hastened or made premature by the maltreatment of her Master A. A. Morse and his mistress Mrs. C. T. [?] Morse, and more particularly on the part of the latter, and....that the said slave Jain the said A. A. Morse & C. T. Morse, by misfortune, and contrary to their will

COD Short Description: 
maltreatment by master
Original Record: 
2415
Owner: 
Rev. Albert A. Morse

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