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Wayne County, Ne oh Slave HAG executions in 1805

"Tn 1805 an outbreak was reported in Wayne County, about
which a correspondent wrote to the Raleigh REGISTER as
follows: 'We have been engaged in this county in the
trying of negroes for poisoning the whites ever since
last Monday. One suffered death at the stake (was burnt
alive on Saturday last, for poisoning her master, mist-
ress and two others, Two more are under sentence of
death, and are to be hanged on Wednesday next,"

SLAVERY IN THE SIATE OF NORTH CAROLINA by John Spencer
Bassett, PhD, John Hopkins University Studies in

Historical and Political Science, Series XVII, No. 7-8,
1899, Pages95=96, Quoting RALEIGH REGISTER, July 23 &

Auge 13, 1805)

vayne County, N. Co, Slave AGH executions in 1805

"In 1805 an outbreak was reported in Wayne County, about
which a correspondent wrote to the Raleigh REGISTER as
follows: 'We have been engaged in this county in the
trying of negroes for poisoning the whites ever since
last Monday, One suffered death at the stake (was burnt
alive on Saturday last, for poisoning her master, mist-
ress and two others, Two more are under sentence of
death, and are to be hanged on Wednesday next,"

SLAVERY IN THE SfATE OF NORTH CAROLINA by John Spencer
Bassett, PhD, John Hopkins University Studies in

Historical and Political Science, Series XVII, No. 7-8,
1899, Pages95-96, Quoting RALEIGH REGISTER, July 23 %

Auge 13, 1805)

wayne County, N, Cs, Slave "MAME executions in 1805

"In 1805 an outbreak was reported in Wayne County, about
which a correspondent wrote to the Raleigh RMISTER as
follows: "We have been engaged in this county in the
trying of negroes for poisoning the whites ever since
last Monday, One suffered death at the stake (was burnt
alive on Saturday last, for poisoning her master, mist-
ress and two others, Two more are under sentence of
death, and are to be hanged on Wednesday ni
SLAVERY IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA by John Spencer
Bassett, PhD, John Hopkins University Studies in
wsterieel and Political Science, Series XVII, No. 7-8,
1899, Pages95-96, Quoting RAIEIGH REGISTER, July 23 %
Auge 13, 1805)

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