Seventeen-year old slave Amy Spain, a domestic servant of attorney A.C. Spain in Darlington, South Carolina, spotted federal troops from General Sherman's march north to North Carolina, and immediately and loudly declared herself free. When the troops had passed Confederate officials trial, convicted, and hanged her for disloyalty and theft, over the pleas of her owner, who acted as her defense counsel. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Amy Spain," Harper's Weekly Magazine, September 30, 1865, p. 613.
Record Data
Date Certainty
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Type
Crime/Disasters
