The State vs. the Dead Body of Belfast

Date: 
January 18, 1813

Deceased

Belfast
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Damson
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Belfast [did] voluntarily & feloniously ... kill and murder himself with a knife by stabbing himself in the neck

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the plantation of John Damson Esqr
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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