The State vs. the Dead Body of Bob

Date: 
November 19, 1850

Deceased

Bob
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
boy
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
R. Smith
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid boy came to his death by hanging himself with a rope attached to a small white oak sapling

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. Wingo
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Capt. R. Smith
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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