The State vs. the Dead Body of Joshua

Date: 
June 26, 1860

Deceased

Description: 
negro man slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that. . .Joshua a negro man slave of Harmons Gallmans came to his death very sudenly by some internal disease unknwon

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Harmon Gallman

Source

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