Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Unionville, South Carolina

In 1871, a congressional sub-committee investigating Ku Klux Klan violence reported that ten Black people were taken from the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, by several hundred Klan members acting under military organization, and killed. The Working Christian, the Yorkville Enquirer and the Washington Chronicle all carried this account of the investigation's findings. None of the sources names the victims or gives their ages or the date of the killings, so this record can only note that one of the ten was among those killed.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The investigating committee reported that a Ku-Klux mob took him from the Unionville jail and killed him.

Reported by: the investigating committee, as reported in the article (outside investigators).

Sources (2)