The State vs. the Dead Body of Isaac

Date: 
March 4, 1841

Deceased

Isaac
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
William J. Taylor
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

on their oaths due say that it was according to their belief and the evidence before them that Isaac came to his Death by the visitation of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
R. L. Wilson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate, acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Col. Wm. J. Taylor's plantation
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
L28183_0102_01.jpg
L28183_0102_02.jpg
L28183_0102_03.jpg
L28183_0102_04.jpg
L28183_0102_05.jpg
L28183_0102_06.jpg

Get in touch

  • Department of History
    220 LeConte Hall, Baldwin Street
    University of Georgia
    Athens, GA 30602-1602
  • 706-542-2053
  • admin@ehistory.org

eHistory was founded at the University of Georgia in 2011 by historians Claudio Saunt and Stephen Berry

Learn More about eHistory

Supporters

+ American Council of Learned Societies
+ DigiLab, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia