Enslavement in Pennsylvania
Cumberland County Miscellaneous Enslavement Data
The items and data on this page do not list a specific slaveholder, yet contain valuable or fascinating data about individual enslaved persons, slave culture or life. As with the other pages, sources are listed and a link is provided to a separate source page which provides information about that source and where it may be found.
Enslavement Items
Name: Suckey ("Negroe Suckey")
Date of item: May 1780, May 1781
Location: Carlisle
Item: Court Order--punishment for arson
Details/Text: "Cumberland County --May 1780
Republica vs Negroe Suckey -- Arson
Judgement that Negroe Suckey be hanged by the Neck till she be dead."
"Cumberland County --May 1781
Republica vs Negroe Suckey -- Convicted of Arson
Sentenced to death."
Notes:
Source: Records of the (Pennsylvania) Supreme Court, pages 67, 108.
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