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Pre-Civil War America’s most significant fugitive slave stories, a young woman named MARGARET GARNER fled Kentucky’s Maplewood Plantation in 1856 to freedom in Ohio. But when captured, she killed her own children, rather than see them returned to the bonds of slavery. Her trial sparked intense national debate; should she be tried for murder in free Ohio, or for property destruction in the slave state of Kentucky? Both sides saw in their differences nothing short of the simmering roots of civil war. She was also among the first slaves to assert a woman’s right that her children are her own and not the “property” of her slavemaster.
"If had to choose, to be free our let my family be in slaved,
I wonder what I would choose now, seeing that they taken my last,
The forces of life, takes at anytime, while others just take your moments...
Jason Lofters,"
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