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The instance of this nineteen year-old slave was not a rarity, but instead one instance of many. While murder and attempted murder is absolutely wrong, there have been slaves as cruelly punished for actions much less severe than this. Nevertheless, the article displays that while slaves were certainly capable of posing some level of a threat against the white population, it proved to be in vain much of the time for their punishments would always be much worse than their crimes.

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These gruesome images depict both the burning of an African American and the aftermath of those who were burned at the stake. In both the illustration and photograph, a large crowd can be seen to have gathered in the background, further reinstating that these unfortunate lives weren't just 'examples' to other slaves who may go astray, but likely would also encourage other whites and slave owners to deliver such harsh penalties in result to slaves behaving in any other manner than compliance. Not only were the people burned, but proceeding their burning, the crowd would then raise enough money, as much as the property was worth, to pay back the owner his money. This gesture would accompany the fact that white communities did not want enslavement to end. They wanted to preserve the "luxury" of slavery forever. When the governments decided to determine slavery based upon race, they wanted to make sure there was no way out. A slave is a slave and will always be born to serve.

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The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of Lynching - Micheal J. Pfeifer 

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The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of Lynching - Micheal J. Pfeifer 

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In this book, Micheal J. Pfeifer talks about how rough justice on African Americans affected them. This being said, in chapter 3, page 42-43, the author talks about how whites in a given community would burn blacks at the stake for simply looking at woman wrong. What aided these displays of executions were the mere fact the person could have been known to have a "ill feeling" about the white woman a negro looked at incorrectly. The problem is in the event taken place on July 3rd, 1853, the author claims that the burning of the nineteen-year-old negro was a simple scare tactic to only aid in the justification of burning the nineteen-year-old negro and to use this example to scare away any future crimes similar to this one. In the book Pfeifer wrote, he states that negro men were often captured and burned if the locals thought the justice system was taking too long to kill the negro man. The locals would kidnap the negro man, whom is already on trial, and set an example of him. Since this style of execution (burning at the sake) was a very repetitive event, it can be more than just a scare tactic, but a way to instill a sense of who is the more superior race and to maintain the fact that there is no way out of their current oppression; the segregation, the violence, and all the other ways whites try to keep black and white communities apart as much as they can. The White communities wanted to send a message to the black community. The message being the fact that we can do horrible things to your "kind", and still get away with it. Physical slavery is going away, but the emotional and psychological part of slavery is still in place.

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This map shows two different spots, one shows where the slave was burned in Pettis County, MO and the other location of Boonville, MO, where the woman lived and where there was a witness to the event. The article says that the slave's owner was located in Heath’s Creek, Pettis county, KY. But when researched, that location was not found and the closest thing to that location was in Missouri. We think that the secondary source to the article, being the woman witness of the event, was wrong about a few places or maybe the 1853 boundaries of Kentucky and Missouri were a little different.

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In  this article, a nineteen year old was burned at the stake for raping and murdering a women who lived in the same neighborhood of his owner. The events were given to a newspaper reporter based on the words of a potential witness to the burning of the negro boy. The rapping of the woman took place while her husband was meeting somewhere not specified. The nineteen year old then killed the lady with a club and tried to kill her three sons because he was scared that they will tell someone about what he had done to their mother. The children were badly beaten and were said to have harsh bruises on their bodies. When the husband got home from his meeting, he saw his dead wife on the floor and the harsh bruises that was left on their bodies. The oldest son, who was beaten the worst, told his father who it was. The local law enforcement tried to apprehend the man immediately for trial, but the locals who heard about the incident were outraged enough to apprehend him to burn him at the stake. In order to make sure the nineteen year old negro actually committed the murder, they got a confession out of him. The negro told the locals it was not him, but his brother who committed these crimes, then he said he was provoked to the act by his master. The master was taken in, but then let go because of the last and final confession of the negro boy. He told them that he wanted to rape the woman and it had escalated from there.The negro was then burned, but the author of the article proposed the idea of the harshness of the execution could only have been justified by the nature of the offence. Before this nineteen year old, who committed this rape and murder, it was reported that white women were being raped by negro men all over the country. The punishment for such a crime was suppose to symbolize and represent what would happen to any one who committed the same kind of crime. The community thought it was going to serve as protection from further incidents similar to this case. The author then ended the article saying that even if it were a white man who committed a crime as severe as this one that the punishment for him would have been the same.This idea of equal punishment was not the case. Whites were put on trial and if ruled, executed by hanging.