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CSI:Dixie: A Grim Archive of Slavery’s Violence - The Journal of the Civil War Era
On March 14, 1846, Abraham Jones, a coroner in Edgefield County, South Carolina, filed a report concerning the death of a female slave named Rose. According to the coroner, five days earlier a man named Robert Moore visited the home of Michael Long, a slaveholder who claimed Rose as his property. Long led Robert Moore … Read More Read More