Colonial Cases
Anonymous [1823]
slave court - rebellion - capital punishment
Slave Court
December 1823
Source: The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Monday, February 2, 1824; Issue 17095, from the British Library's 19th Century Newspapers site. See also Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland) 5 February 1824, issue 15987
From the Public Advertiser. ... Dec. 23
Conspiracy suppressed at Port Maria. - A Special Slave Court has been convened, and seven negroes belonging to Frontier Estate, and one to J. Walker Esq. condemned to death for a meditated rebellion, and design of burning Port Maria. The death-warrant will be executed on Wednesday. What says Mr. Morning Chronicle to this?