The State vs. the Dead Body of Miley

Date: 
April 5, 1858

Deceased

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

opon their oaths do say that the said negro woman died from exhaustion consequent upon hysterical mania in the jail

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at a house near the jail in York Street, Camden
County: 

Source

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