A letter from Mary Lamboll Beach to her sister Elizabeth Gilchrist in Germantown, Pennsylvania discussing health, religion and the Denmark Vesey trial. Details include the notation that Satan is "setting these incendiaries the Negroes to work," the defenses put up by the city, suspicions for persons involved, brief information regarding who Denmark Vesey is and his execution where a young boy was killed by a carriage and finally, the execution of "29 poor miserable cuplrits."
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Mary Lamboll Thomas Beach Papers, 1822-1890✖[remove]1
Slavery, Health, Death, Plantations, Hanging, Gallows, Children--Death, Trials, Nineteenth century, Letter writing, Religious life and customs, Enslaved persons, Slave rebellions✖[remove]1
