negro child

Description: 
negro child
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by strangling or choking with phlegm

COD Short Description: 
child strangled on phlegm
Original Record: 
2538
Owner: 
T. C. Lester

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