Baze

First Name: Baze
Description: 
negro slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
chop axe
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there oaths that said Baze came to his death. . .by reason of two blows from a chop axe in the hands of Anderson another slave belong to said T.D.J. Howl

COD Short Description: 
hit with chop axe
Original Record: 
3638
Owner: 
Thomas D. J. Howl

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