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Subject:	Re: Slave Beheadings
From:	Jim Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:39:28 -0400
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Beheadings and other disfigurements were quite common in the colonial
era.  Rape and murder inevitably brought the death penalty accompanied
by the perpetrator's head being placed on a pike at a prominent place,
usually a major crossroad in rural areas.  Hence the racists names for
some places in Virginia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Jim Watkinson 

James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.
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