female Infant Slave

Description: 
female Infant Slave
Sex: 
Female
Child: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .the child was . . .smothered in bed by its mother throuch[?] or by accident without having any intention to do so

COD Short Description: 
smothered in bed
Original Record: 
3396
Owner: 
J. C. Ison

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