News Article Reporting the Beating Death of an Enslaved Overseer by 8 Enslaved Persons

Authors

Author Unknown

Files

Description

News article in which 8 unnamed runaway enslaved persons turned themselves in after sometime living in the woods, having beaten their abusive overseer to death on Windsor plantation

ISBN

MUM00431_stone_b1_f4_015

Publication Date

4-17-1849

Relational Format

archival material

City

Vidalia (La.)

Keywords

Enslaved persons ; Slaveholders ; Plantation owners ; Slavery -- Louisiana ; Slavery -- Louisiana -- History -- Sources

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Unknown, Author, "News Article Reporting the Beating Death of an Enslaved Overseer by 8 Enslaved Persons" (1849). Lantern Project. 100.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lanternproject/100

Original Format

article

Original Collection

Alfred H. Stone Collection, Archives & Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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