The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
December 4, 1852

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Exposure
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by his appearance from privation and exposure

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. M. Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation known as Stockton's
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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