The State vs. the Dead Body of Chanya

Date:

December 31, 1849

Chanya

Description:

slave

Sex:

Female

Race:

Black

Slave Status:

Enslaved

COD Category:

Natural Causes

COD:

COD Inquest Finding:

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by infirmity and old age

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

magistrate acting as coroner

Inquest Location:

at A.G.W. Gordon's

County:

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

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