The State vs. the Dead Body of black child

Date: 
July 31, 1849

Deceased

black child
Description: 
black child
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Harriot
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Harriot and Amy and Jenny did then and there feloniously cause the death of the said chile contrary to the peace and dignity of the state.

Coroner

Coroner: 
Henry M. Smith
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Morton's old place
County: 
Greenville County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Harriot and Amy and Jenny
Perpetrator Description: 
slave
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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Transcription: 

We also believe that the child breathed after it was born and that it came to its death by causes unknow by us and we suppose the most probably bleeding from the navel accord[?]

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