Caribbean Religious Trials

Defendants

Name	Charge	Outcome	Punishment	Appeal
Mary	Possession of obeah materials	Acquitted		None	View details

Case details

Date:

01/04/1767

Date accuracy:

Start date of trial

Trial Type:

Criminal

Court or location:

St Andrew slave court

Court type:

Slave Court

Territory:

Jamaica

Dataset:

Not in dataset

Sources

Title/Headline/Description	Publication/Reference	Date
Copy of the Record Book of the slave trials of St. Andrew Jamaica from 17 March 1746 to 16 Dec. 1782	Enclosure in Metcalfe to Russell No 51, CO 137/248	05/04/1840
having nurtured in her possession [illegible] relative to the practice of obeah or witchcraft		View details