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Hancock County, Georgia
Slavery News Items
Horrible Barbarity
The Grand Jury of Hancock county, Georgia, have presented Robert Flournoy, Sen. And Robert Flournoy Jr., large
slave holders in that county, for cruelty and oppression to their slaves. The following is an extract from the
presentment of the Grand Jury:
“Robert Flournoy, Jr., did on the 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1824, and from that day till the
12th day of October in the same year, at their plantation, cruelly misuse 7 slaves, to wit – Cipio, Nelly, Joshua,
Mahala, Grace, Sally and Dolly, slaves of the said Robert Flournoy, Sen. And Robert Flourney, jr., by cruelly beating,
by withholding necessary food for the sustenance of said slaves, and which slaves have been under the principal
care and direction of Robert Flournoy, Jr., and by requiring greater labor from said slaves than they were able
to perform, and by not affording proper clothing, whereby the health of said slaves became so injured and impaired
that the above named slaves have all died between the dates above mentioned; and one of them, to wit: Dolly, on
the 12th day of October, in the year aforesaid; and that the slaves so dying have been denied the usual rites of
sepulture. In addition to all these acts of cruelty and barbarity, they have denied said slaves the opportunity
of recovery; by not employing proper medical aid administered by the skill of a physician.”
[Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) December 8, 1824]
An overseer named R. Pettigrew, was robbed
and murdered by three negroes, at Sparta, Georgia, on the 28th ult. The supposed murderers are in custody. [Pennsylvania Inquirer and Daily Courier, (Philadelphia, PA) Thursday, February 11,
1841 - Submitted by Rita Morgan]
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