Michael Long

Dinah
Description: 
Woman Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Michael Long
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Childbirth
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Dinah came to her death by miscarriage and inflamation of the womb at the plantation of Master Michael Long

Rose
Description: 
negro woman Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Michael Long
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say that the aforesaid Rose being chained in the Meat house of said M. Long, around the neck with a common chain trace with one ened and the Other end of said chain aforesaid to the Joist broke her neck either by design or by accident

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