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In January 1856, Margaret Garner and her family were at the center of one of the most dramatic and intensely contested fugitive slave cases in the nation's history. Just hours after escaping slavery in Kentucky and taking refuge in a home in Cincinnati, the Garners were cornered by authorities. As the captors sought to enter the house, Garner killed her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mary. Reports suggested that she had tried to kill her three other children, too. These events were instantly sensationalized in the media, stimulating heated debates throughout the country: What did it mean that a mother would rather kill her children than see them returned to a life in slavery? What should happen to Margaret Garner? The conflicting answers to these questions exposed the fault lines over slavery within a nation already drifting toward civil war.
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Trials, litigation, Fugitive slaves, Trials (Infanticide), Public opinion, Infanticide, Legal status, laws, History, Trials, united states, Fugitive slaves, united states, Slavery, law and legislation, united statesPeople
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United States, Ohio, CincinnatiTimes
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Who speaks for Margaret Garner?
2010, University of Minnesota Press
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Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?
2010, University of Minnesota Press
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