Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob of more than four thousand people took an enslaved man from the jail at Abbeville, Alabama, tied him to a stake piled with fat-pine wood, and burned him to death. According to an account reprinted in The Kanzas News in July 1857, the sheriff offered no resistance. The reprinted account, from the Eufala (Ala.) Native, is the only source for these details.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Eufala (Ala.) Native, as reprinted in The Kanzas News, says a mob of more than four thousand took a man from the Abbeville jail and burned him at a stake.
Reported by: Eufala (Ala.) Native, as reprinted in The Kanzas News (reporters).