Bob

First Name: Bob
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
boy
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid boy came to his death by hanging himself with a rope attached to a small white oak sapling

COD Short Description: 
hanged self with rope
Original Record: 
2984
Owner: 
R. Smith

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