[4] During the late 1720s, Bermuda's elite began making claims of being victims of poison attacks by their slaves.
[3] Beck and ten white citizens of Bermuda, including one of the victims, Sarah Foster, testified against Bassett.
Bassett denied the charges but was declared guilty of attempted murder on and sentenced to be burned alive, while Beck was exonerated.
[3] He responded, "you are to be conveyed to the place of execution where a pile of wood is to be made and provided, and you are there to be fastened to a sufficient stake and there to be burnt with fire until your body be dead.
[5] Sally Bassett's notorious act and the burning of her live body became a part of the islands' folklore and local history.
[9] The government of Bermuda commissioned Carlos Dowling to create a statue of Basset, as the nation's first memorial to an enslaved person.