Source: Amy Notes (ID702)
Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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Have Mend know Quash from youth and see this story while reading the Gazette to Mose residents. Othe
Have Mend know Quash from youth and see this story while reading the Gazette to Mose residents. Others remember him, too. Maybe Mend even tried to recruit Quash in the seven years he was free, but Quash saw that SA lied about freeing slaves and wouldn't come.
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The SCG described the execution of Quash
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: Black Majority (ID 127)
Author: Wood, Peter (ID 93)
Content_id: 3457
Few onlookers could have been unmoved by the execution of Quash, a runaway who had been at large for seven years before finally being cornered in 1734. Once taken, this unusual renegade who had managed to preserve his African name and his personal independence for so long a time, was tried for various felonies in the morning and executed the same afternoon in a ceremony described fully by the local paper: "When he came to the Gallows, he kneel'd down at the foot of the Ladder and prayed very devoutly; after he had ascended the Ladder, he likewise prayed again for some short time, when he turn'd himself gently off the Ladder, with a fervent Petition to teh Almighty, to have Mercy upon his poor soul. After he wsa dead his Head was sever'd from his Body, and fixed upon teh Gallows." (SCG 4/6/34) [His capture: 3/16/34] Given Quash's serene departure, it is difficult to surmise the conflicting thoughts which passed through the minds of the numerous slaves assembled to see him die or who later walked beneath his impaled head. AN352 (Wood BM 283)