Freedwoman

Description: 
Freedwoman
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Clary Williams
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said infant came to its death by strangulation by the hands of its mother Clary Williams, a freed woman in the town of Anderson . . .immediately after its birth

COD Short Description: 
strangled by mother
Notes: 
infant
Original Record: 
2429

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