In January 1856, Margaret Garner--an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation--ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio.
In 2004, it became the subject of her Libretto Margaret Garn.
Toni Morrison first imaginatively treated Margaret Garner\'s infanticide in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved (1987).
As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery.
In January 1856, Margaret Garner--an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation--ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio