BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA The slave Rodney sentenced to hang fo

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BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA. The slave Rodney, sentenced to hang for burning down a cotton gin. Two folio leaves, written on three sides, being a court copy of the proceeding; pages "silked" with Japan paper. Baldwin County, February 1819

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Thomas Kenan, clerk for Baldwin County, sets forth the case against Rodney, the slave of Major John A. Jones for willfully burning down his cotton gin, with a large quantity of cotton in it. Rodney pleaded "not guilty," but the outcome of this trial was entirely predictable: "hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead."