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Wednesday 8th of May 1811
215 years, 8 months and 27 days ago




Plantation farmer and slave owner Arthur William Hodge is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom.


Hodge was the first West Indian slave owner to be executed for the murder of a slave considered his property.