The State vs. the Dead Body of Aaron

Date: 
December 5, 1852

Deceased

Aaron
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
A. Bushnell
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
chisel
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that said Negro slave Aaron was Feloniously Killed . . .by a stab on the left side of the throat with a chissel about one inch and a half wide, by the hand of some person unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel White
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at A. Bushnells Shop
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

She heard Aaron and Sam a quarreling. She heard each give the other the dam lie She then heard a scuffling like two a fighting she thinks it was about the Black Smith Shop She says she knows it was Sam and Aaron by their voices.

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