Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1871, a congressional investigation reported that ten Black people were taken from the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, by several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members acting under military organization and killed. The Working Christian and the Yorkville Enquirer both carried the findings, and the Washington Chronicle described the killings the same way. None of the accounts gives this person's name, age, or the date of the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An investigating committee reported that a Ku-Klux mob took the victim from the Unionville jail and killed him, one of ten Black people killed this way.
Reported by: the investigating committee, as reported in the article (outside investigators).