Indictment for Assault and Stating That the Woman was a “Damned Negro Whore”

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Partly-printed Document, 1p. folio, Bristol, Massachusetts, December 7, 1748, being a bond for Cornelas Salsberry, who was indicted for “an assault on the body of one Elizabeth Story of Norton...did kick with his foot several times and with force and violence did jam her down on the floor several times and called her a Damned Negro whore and said she was such and that he could prove it...” Fine.

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