The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
March 12, 1824

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Darlington Jones
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
boat
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man came to his death by (as we suppose) from the evidence profused the falling out of a Batteaux accidently and drowning

Coroner

Coroner: 
Joseph Mickle
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
on the river bank at the plantation of Edward Brevard
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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