Mose

Mose was a Black man held in the jail at Abbeville, Alabama. Newspapers reprinting accounts from January and February 1857 report that a crowd of several thousand people took him from the jail, and that a guard let them take him while the sheriff offered no opposition. According to the reports, the crowd bound him to a stake that had been set up in the open beforehand and burned him to death. The accounts are secondhand, drawn from an unnamed informant or a newspaper citing one, and the reprints give no date for the killing.

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

Reported by: Eufaula Native, as reprinted in several newspapers (reporters); Columbia (S.C.) Times, citing an informant who saw the burning (witnesses); Spirit of the South (reporters); New-York Dispatch, citing unnamed reports (reporters).

Sources (9)

• Richmond Enquirer, January 27, 1857, page 2 Richmond Enquirer, January 27, 1857
• Semi-Weekly Standard, January 31, 1857, page 3 Semi-Weekly Standard, January 31, 1857
• Dollar Weekly Mirror, January 31, 1857, page 3 Dollar Weekly Mirror, January 31, 1857
• The Western Democrat, February 3, 1857, page 2 The Western Democrat, February 3, 1857
• Worcester Daily Spy, February 3, 1857, page 2 Worcester Daily Spy, February 3, 1857
• The National Era, February 5, 1857, page 1 The National Era, February 5, 1857
• Springfield Weekly Republican, February 7, 1857, page 5 Springfield Weekly Republican, February 7, 1857
• Dollar Weekly Mirror, February 7, 1857, page 2 Dollar Weekly Mirror, February 7, 1857
• New-York Dispatch, February 8, 1857, page 5 New-York Dispatch, February 8, 1857