Rose

First Name: Rose
Description: 
negro woman Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say that the aforesaid Rose being chained in the Meat house of said M. Long, around the neck with a common chain trace with one ened and the Other end of said chain aforesaid to the Joist broke her neck either by design or by accident

COD Short Description: 
hanged by chain in meat house
Original Record: 
3495
Owner: 
Michael Long

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