1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Health (Injury)
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Title
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1823-06-13, Unnamed, Male, Health (Injury)
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Description
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An enslaved man was injured due to a physical assault perpetrated by 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 a.n 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--"
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Date
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13 June 1823
