The State vs. the Dead Body of Adam

Date: 
August 22, 1828

Deceased

Adam
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Solomon Legare
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said negro man Adam the property of Solomon Legare died by his own act, having hung himself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Robert Mickle
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Camden
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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