The State vs. the Dead Body of Violet

Date: 
March 25, 1844

Deceased

Violet
Description: 
negro woman (slave)
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Dinkins
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths aforesaid do say, that the aforesaid Violet in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, voluntarily and feloniously herself did kill

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel Holland
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at John Dinkinses
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

she has had it in contemplation to destroy herself for some time past.

that he has owned Violet and she was a negro of a very unhappy and ungovernable disposition

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