1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Violence (Physical assault)

Title: 1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Violence (Physical assault)
Description: An enslaved person was physically assaulted at night by a University student, John Clark.

Partial Transcript: "Whereas John Clark has upon his own Confession been convicted of highly improper conduct in violently assaulting and maiming a negro without provocation, during the last vacation and at an unlawful hour of the night, and whereas the said Clark with John Scott, Robert Ware, & Thomas Ware, nave upon the same grounds been convicted of cruel and barbarous treatment to a poor deranged negro man, on Sunday the first of the month of June as well as of the term, and that during Morning service in the Chapel from which they were illegally absent, and whereas the said Clark was detected in several instances of prevarication."
Event Type: Violence: Physical assault
Action Status: Completed
Date: 13 June 1823
Location: University of Georgia Campus
Outcome: 1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Health (Injury)
Source: Faculty Minutes, Vol. I, 1822-1836; Page 15
Related Event: 1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Health (Injury)
Freedom Status: Enslaved
Author: James P. Waddel
Witness: Robert Ware & Thomas Ware
Perpetrator: John Clark
Organization: University of Georgia

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