The State vs. the Dead Body of two negro children

a negro woman named Sunaka Another of said children property of said Ellis Palmer did ... choake the said children

Date: 
June 4, 1824

Deceased

two negro children
Description: 
two negro children
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Ellis Palmer
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that a negro woman named Sunaka Another of said children property of said Ellis Palmer did . . .choake the said children with a glove

Coroner

Coroner: 
Gordon Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Ellis Palmers
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Sunaka
Perpetrator Description: 
slave
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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