1831, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal)
- Title
- 1831, Unnamed, Male, Labor (Artisanal)
- Description
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Enslaved men repaired the walls of New College after it had burnt down. The wall ultimately fell and killed a student.
Partial Transcript: "In 1831, while the workman were engaged in undermining one of the walls of the burnt College, which it will be remembered as four stories high, a young man was lying on the grass at a safe distance from the wall as he supposed, watching the progress of the work, when suddenly it fell and crushed him to death." - Event Type
- Labor: Artisanal
- Action Status
- Completed
- Date
- 1831
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Location
- University of Georgia Campus
- Freedom Status
- Enslaved
- Author
- William Letcher Mitchell
- Source Resource
- http://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/api/items/822
- Leaser
- University of Georgia