Charlotte

First Name: Charlotte
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say that Charlotte a slavey here lying dead before us came to her death by a wound inflicted by a six Barreled repeater in the hands of James J. Wortham on the 20th of February 1862

COD Short Description: 
slave murdered by master for attempting to poison his wife
Original Record: 
4887
Owner: 
James J. Wortham

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