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Arthur Jackson

18 years old

Arthur Jackson was an 18-year-old Black man who was being held at a jail. A group of citizens took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree. His death was reported in the Narragansett Herald in March 1885.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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