Dick

First Name: Dick
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
small rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the above named Dick not having the fear of God before his eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation fo the Devil did voluntarily hang himself with a small rope on a limb of a walnut tree

COD Short Description: 
hanged self with small rope
Original Record: 
2967
Owner: 
T. W. Waters

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