The State vs. the Dead Body of slave child

Date: 
December 31, 1846

Deceased

slave child
Description: 
slave child
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Nathan Hawkins
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .that it was either Smothered accidentaly or otherwise dyed natrualy

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Nathan Hawkins
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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