Benjamin Haile

Cubiner
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Benjamin Haile
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro slave named Cubiner, the property of Capt. B. Hail, came to his death by shooting himself through the head with a double barrelled gun

Ann
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Benjamin Haile
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the little girl Ann, a slave the property of B. Haile, came to her death by being burnt intentionally by the nurse, Tamer, a slave of B. Haile.

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