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Margaret Garner, called "Peggy" (died 1858), was an enslaved African American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery. [1]
[25] According to Modern Medea (1999), a re-examination of the Margaret Garner case in history and legend, "In November 1859 on the Georgia plantation of Charles Colcock Jones, a slave named Lucy came under suspicion for giving birth to and then smothering her newborn with assistance from a black midwife. For twelve days Lucy denied even ...
Gaines Landing was on a stretch of the Mississippi River known as the Greenville Bends Landmarks near the confluence of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, showing roads to and from Gaines Landing Gaines Landing, Arkansas, and environs, mapped 1862 Gaines Landing and Gasters Landing, both "burned June 15, 1863," as mapped during Reconstruction in Arkansas 1866 table of distances between ...
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The driver accused of hitting and killing a Garner family of three in a Memorial Day wreck has been indicted on charges of murder. Jordan Alexander Porter, 25, was charged with driving while ...
In 1856 Margaret, her husband and four children escaped to Cincinnati, but a posse quickly tracked them down. As they were surrounded, Margaret tried to kill herself and her children (successfully killing her two-year-old daughter), rather than be returned to slavery. Garner's life inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved.
At the time of Princess Margaret’s death, newspapers noted that her death came on the heels of her longtime struggle with heart and lung problems. Others believed her self-indulgent lifestyle ...
Margaret Garner was pregnant at the time of her escape, and killed one of her children, Mary, when faced with recapture. Of the three other children, two sons, Tom and Sam, lived to maturity; a daughter Cilla was drowned at the age of ten months when she and Margaret were thrown overboard in a collision of their steamboat (headed for the slave ...