Virgil

First Name: Virgil
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths Do say that the said negro Virgil Slave of Georg Blakely came to his Death By hanging himself to a Dogwood tree with a Muscadine Vine Six or Seven feet in length by tying one end round his neck and the other to the limb of the tree and also Confining his hands Behind him - and we also think that he has been hanging some two or three weeks...

COD Short Description: 
hung himself with a muscadine vine
Original Record: 
5151
Owner: 
George Blakely

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