Mint

First Name: Mint
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
hemp rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oath do say that Mint a slave the property of Sims McDaniel did hang herself by the neck with a hemp rope

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
3339
Owner: 
Sims McDaniel

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