John M. Norris

Charles
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John M. Norris
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Head Trauma
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that by his head being mashed and and his scull broken at the gin house of John M. Norris . . .by the gin running gear, his head passing between the cogs and trunal[?] head, rounds or Wollower

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