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Name Charge Outcome Punishment Appeal
Winter Practising obeah Guilty Transportation None View details
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Date:
Apr 1776
Date accuracy:
Accurate to month
Trial Type:
Criminal
Court or location:
St Thomas in the East Slave Court
Court type:
Slave Court
Territory:
Jamaica
Dataset:
Not in dataset
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Extracts from the Trial Book of Slaves, kept at the Vestry Office at Morant Bay, Jamaica, reproduced in Appendix O of Lights and Shadows of Jamaica History: Being Three Lectures, Delivered in Aid of the Mission Schools of the Colony 01/01/1859

"Evidence: Deponent, on searching prisoner's house, found sundry matters such as egg-shells tied up in plantain trash, fowls' feet, fish-bones, feathers, and sundry other matters in a basket; also a coney-skin, or some such thing, stuffed in a bottle, which those who practise Obeah commonly make use of, &c.."

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