Who speaks for Margaret Garner? /
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....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816675272 0816675279 0816642583 9780816642588 |