The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
June 5, 1805

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
check string
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that in a certain wood near Camden with a certain check string which he then & there voluntarily hanged and suffocated [himself]

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Brown
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
in woods near Camden
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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