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(MURDER BY A SLAVE)

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(MURDER BY A SLAVE)
Fascinating, early slave-related D.S. 1p. 4to., Bedford Co., Va., July 5, 1803 concerning a slave accused of poisoning her master's child! The document reads in part: ""àwe command you, the said jaileràto receive in your custodyàHannah, a negro woman the property of James Saundersàhaving administered medicine of a poisonous quality, to wit, arsenick to a child of the said James Saunders with an evil and malicious intentà"" The outcome of the trial is uncertain, but the penalty for a slave's assault on a white person was almost always death. Very good. 2390