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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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In Baltimore on June 1, a man acting as guardian for a slave owner's estate shot and severely wounded a Negro boy in the head after beating him for resisting sale to a slave dealer. The man was committed for trial.
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This morning a man was brought before a Justice of Peace in this city, charged with having fired a pistol, loaded with a brace of bullets, at a Negro Boy, which wounded him severely in the head. It appears the boy was a slave, and the prisoner as guardian of his owner was about to sell him to a slave dealer to be carried out of the State; and the boy refused to go with the dealer, and attempted to apply to his real owner to interfere and prevent the sale, when the agent first beat him cruelly, and then fired at him as above stated. The justice committed him for trial at the next court.
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Primary Location
Baltimore
Event Date
June 1
Outcome
negro boy wounded severely in the head; man committed for trial at next court.
Event Details
A man, acting as guardian for the slave owner's estate, attempted to sell a slave boy to a dealer for removal out of state. The boy resisted and sought intervention from his real owner. The man beat the boy cruelly and then fired a pistol loaded with two bullets at him, wounding him severely in the head. The man was brought before a Justice of the Peace and committed for trial.