Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858
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Name (Latin)
Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858
Date of birth
1834-06-04
Date of death
1858
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Women plantation workers
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed January 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Garner, Margaret; slave, fugitive slave, alleged murderer; born 04 June 1833 in Boone County, Kentucky, United States; escaped from the various Kentucky plantations on which slaves worked (1856); attempted to kill self and children, but was arrested in the process (1856); tried for murder instead of for fleeing slavery, and eventually was sent back to the South and slavery; in response to the case, the Ohio state legislature officially denounced the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; those events sparkedconflict between North and South, eventually leading to the Civil War; the family's story has been subject of various art, including a painting by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, titled The Modern Medea, also the basis for the character of Sethe in Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, as well as the Morrison's opera entitled Margaret Garner; died in 1858 in Louisiana, United States)
- Modern Medea, 1998:CIP prologue (Margaret Garner; fugitive slave tried for infanticide in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1857)
- Kentucky Commission on Human Rights WWW site, 22 July 2011:Gallery of Great Black Kentuckians (Margaret Garner, b. 4 June 1834, Boone County, Ky.; d. 1858)