The State vs. the Dead Body of Ras

Date: 
December 6, 1850

Deceased

Ras
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
William Culbreath
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Ras came to his death . . .coluntarily feloniously, himself did Kill

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Perry
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at D Dennys Mill
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he was on the creek fishing in David Dennys mill pond the 6th of this Inst and saw what he supposed to person in the Creek he came down to the mill & told _____ what he had discovered

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