Margaret Garner, called "Peggy" (died 1858), was an enslaved African American woman who killed her own daughter rather than allow the child to be returned ...

Dec 5, 2007 · Best known as the inspiration for Toni Morrison's award winning novel, Beloved, The Margaret Garner Incident of 1856 contains one of the ...

Jan 31, 2019 · In one soul-chilling moment, she killed her own daughter rather than return her to the horrors of slavery. Her life inspired a Toni Morrison ...

​Margaret Garner (1834 - 1858), an enslaved African American woman in pre-Civil War America, was born on June 4, 1834, at Maplewood plantation in Boone ...

Apr 8, 2021 · Margaret Garner died in slavery in 1858 due to typhoid fever. Her husband Robert Garner survived to see the end of the Civil War; he was ...

The story of Margaret Garner and her family is dramatic, with many twists and turns, as well as, disturbing and heartbreaking events. Late on January 27,1856 in ...

The infamous tale of runaway slave Margaret Garner's valiant attempt to rescue her children from the institution of slavery inspires Thomas Satterwhite Noble's ...

Margaret Garner. Enslaved with her four children on the Archibald Gaines farm in Boone County, Kentucky, Margaret and her husband, who was enslaved on a nearby ...

In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave.

Annotation: Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave from Kentucky, killed one of her children rather than permit her to be returned to slavery. She drowned in a ...