North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : State v Will (slave of Battle), December 1834.

Indictment for murder after a dispute between two slaves which led to the death of their overseer, Richard Baxter. Will was a slave who became angry because another slave, Allen, the plantation foreman, allowed a third slave to use a hoe which Will used and had helved in his own time. In his rage Wi...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Subjects:	Enslaved persons > Legal status, laws, etc. Court records Plantations Slaveholders Trials (Murder) North Carolina > Edgecombe County
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