{"id":9332,"date":"2019-10-11T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2019-10-11T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T14:13:41","slug":"homicide-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9332","title":{"rendered":"Homicide Justified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/homicide-justified.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9333\" width=\"149\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/homicide-justified.jpg 304w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/homicide-justified-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the murder of a slave in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1810\/1811 time frame off and on for some time. Newspaper accounts only indicate the last name of the man involved and I&#8217;m working on determining exactly who he is. We&#8217;ve mentioned the case before, but it&#8217;s been on my genealogical back burner for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little searching on <em>GoogleBooks <\/em>for some of the key terms located a reference to the incident in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B071WX55QN\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B071WX55QN&amp;linkId=b43187e9121d1fa3a4307e95195de4fd\"><em>Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World<\/em><\/a> by Andrew T. Fede.  How much it actually mentions the case I&#8217;m looking into remains to be seen, but I&#8217;m hoping it will give me some insight into the legal issues that I&#8217;m certain to encounter when (or if) the actual records are located. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never hurts to look at <em>GoogleBooks <\/em>(http:\/\/books.google.com) for your search terms as well&#8211;especially when it&#8217;s been a few years when it was last done. This relatively new item was not located the last time searches were conducted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on the murder of a slave in Bedford County, Virginia, in the 1810\/1811 time frame off and on for some time. Newspaper accounts only indicate the last name of the man involved and I&#8217;m working on determining exactly who he is. We&#8217;ve mentioned the case before, but it&#8217;s been on my genealogical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}