“Slave STEPHEN
| Hanged, Houston Co., Gae; 1852.
| it ...The single case of rape on record (by a slave in Hous-
ton County) is worthy of a hasty glance. Stephen a slave,
assaulted one Mary Daniel, a white girl, in a cotton field
while her father was absent at a 'housee-raising,' but did
not accomplish his purpose. After conviction in the in-
ferior court the case was appealed to the Superior Court
which affirmed the decision of the lower court and Stepher
was hanged." "Two Plantations and a County of Ante-Bellun
Georgia," by Ralph B, Flanders, GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUAR-
meeuy, Vol, kul. No. 1. Mare. 1920, 5122. @oce une
appeals 11 GEORGIA 225,
Slave STEPHEN
Hanged, Houston Co., Gae, 1852.
",..The single case of rape on record (by a slave in Hous
ton County) is worthy of a hasty glance. Stephen a slave,
assaulted one Mary Daniel, a white girl, in a cotton field
while her father was absent at a 'houseeraising,' but did
not accomplish his purpose. After conviction in the in-
ferior court the case was appealed to the Superior Court
which affirmed the decision of the lower court and Stephe
was hanged." "Two Plantations and a County of Ante-Bell
Georgia," by Ralph B, Flanders, GEORGIA HISPORICAL QUAR-
TERLY, Vol, XII, No. 1, Mar., 1928, p 22. See the
appeals 11 GEORGIA 225,
Slave STEPHEN
Hanged, Houston Co., Gas, 1852.
",,.The single case of rape on record (by a slave in Hous
ton County) is worthy of a hasty glance. Stephen a slave,
assaulted one Mary Daniel, a white girl, in a cotton field
while her father vas absent at a 'house-raising,' but did
not accomplish his purpose. After conviction in the in-
ferior court the case was appealed to the Superior Court
which affirmed the decision of the lower court and Stepher
was hanged." "Two Plantations and a County of Ante-Bellun
Georgia,® alph B, Flanders, GHORGIA HISIORICAL QUAR-
TERLY, foe "at, No, 1, Mare, 1928, p 22. See the
appeal: 11 GEORGIA 225,
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