Sally bassett slave biography

          Her story significantly chronicles how African communities, and black women in particular, resisted slavery in Bermuda and the wider Americas.

          Sarah "Sally" Bassett, also known as Sary, was an enslaved African woman from Bermuda.!

          Sally Basset

          Bermudian slave

          Sarah "Sally" Bassett, also known as Sary, was an enslaved African woman from Bermuda.

          She was declared guilty and burned at the stake in June 1730 for the poisoning of three individuals.[1] Her notoriety has influenced Bermudian history and cultural heritage.

          Life

          Sarah Bassett[2] was a mixed-race woman and raised many grandchildren.

          Sarah "Sally" Bassett (?—), an African woman enslaved in Bermuda in the sixteenth century, was the grandmother of a young woman named Beck.

        1. Sarah "Sally" Bassett (?—), an African woman enslaved in Bermuda in the sixteenth century, was the grandmother of a young woman named Beck.
        2. A symbolic figure in Bermuda's history, Sarah Sally Bassett was a slave “owned” by the estate of Francis Dickinson of Southampton in the 18th century.
        3. Sarah "Sally" Bassett, also known as Sary, was an enslaved African woman from Bermuda.
        4. Sarah, Sally, or 'Sary' Bassett was an elderly 'mulatto' woman, who, in the first week of June , was capitally convicted of attempting to kill by poison the.
        5. Sally Bassett (d.

          6. In 1713 she was found guilty of killing livestock and was whipped through the parish. Prior to 1727 she was owned by a Southampton blacksmith, Francis Dickinson of Pembroke Parish. Dickinson died around 1726, leaving Bassett for his children to inherit.[3] In 1729, she was valued as useless because of her age, but she continued to practice her medicinal skills in Southampton Parish.[4]

          During the late 1720s, Bermuda's elite began making claims of being victims of poison attacks by their slaves.[4] In 1730, Thomas Foster, his spouse Sarah Foster, and a household