Petition #11382601

Abstract

David Haig represents that in 1822 "his Negro Man Slave Harry was convicted & sentenced to death by a Court of Magistrates & Freeholders ... upon the charge of being concerned in the projected insurrection of the Slaves." Haig states that "his sentence of death was reconsidered and commuted to transportation beyond the limits of the United States." He further reports that Harry was "thereupon retained in confinement in the Work-House of Charleston, by order of the Court and out of the control and care of your petitioner." Noting that Harry has died, Haig contends his death resulted "from said confinement" and that “he was thereby deprived of his value & services, as effectually as if the original sentence of the Court had been carried into execution." The petitioner prays he be granted compensation for the loss of Harry, as "the law, in its spirit, if not in its letter, applies to his claim, now with as much force, as it could do under the supposition of his slave having suffered capital punishment."

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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