The State vs. the Dead Body of Jim

Date: 
July 15, 1831

Deceased

Jim
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Sam [?] McMahan
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that . . .being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil at [?] as aforesaid in a certain Peach Orchard . . .hanged and suffocated . . .voluntarily

Coroner

Coroner: 
Samuel Davis
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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