The State vs. the Dead Body of Sam

Date: 
September 15, 1861

Deceased

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon our oaths do sa, that the slave boy Sam, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, voluntarily and felonously himself did kill, by hanging himself with arope around the kneck on Sunday Evening the 15

Coroner

Coroner: 
Coroner Title: 
Magistrate acting as Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Joseph Hurts'[?]

Source

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