The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
June 24, 1843

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Thomas Holland
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that according to evidence believe the said child was strangled to death by its mother's milk

Coroner

Coroner: 
Tobias Folsom

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Thomas Holland's
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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