John Inabnet recounts that in February 1829 he "hired several negro slaves to Col. B. F. Whitner the Superintendant of the Public Works to work on the State road from Providence Swamp to Charleston." Inabnet insists that "it was a condition of the contract, that said slaves were not to be taken above Providence except for one small job." He charges that "said hands were without your Petitioners knowledge or consent taken up the State road ... where in the month of July" his "negro fellow named Caesar was killed by another slave named Jesse, hired by the Superintendant to work on the route." The petitioner purports that he "by this departure from the contract ... has lost a slave worth six hundred Dollars." He therefore prays "that he may be paid that amount ... to compensate him for the loss he has sustained in the service of the State."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
