Margaret Garner Escape Attempt-Cause-1856

Escape attempt - Cause - 1856, Margaret Garner and her spouse sought to seize the opportunity of the Underground Railroad's peak during the 1850s, as its route transfigured a means to escape. Garner devised an escape from Kentucky farms along the Ohio River alongside sixteen fellow slaves. They set for Cincinnati on Sunday, January 27, 1856, where they met Joseph Kite, their first stop on their journey to freedom. Effect - Upon encounterment of law officials, at the home of Joseph Kite, sent by Archibald warranted to seize back his ‘property’, Margaret Garner, desperate to flee the life of slavery, made the pivotal decision to take the lives of her children and herself. Margaret retrieved a butcher knife off the table and quickly slashed Mary,

The Cincinnati Enquirer recounted the irate mob that denounced the Garners. Despite being taken prisoner, Margaret refused to accept the system of slavery and chose to stand trial in Ohio as an independent individual, despite the possibility of receiving the death penalty for her kid's murder. Effect - Abolitionists utilised the Garner case as their centrepiece that emphasised the brutality and inhumanity of slavery. It stimulated the abolitionist movement's attempts to abolish slavery and prompted further discussions on the system of slavery. Abolitionist Jeff Collins states in a book of his ‘reminisce’ that “Perhaps no case. attracted more attention and aroused deeper interest and sympathy than the case of Margaret Garner. The trial lasted two weeks, drawing crowds to the courtroom every day. It was claimed that Margaret Garner had been brought here by her owners a number of years before, to act as nurse girl. she had been free from that time, and her children. were likewise free. The Commissioner decided that a voluntary return to slavery was necessary. “With the course of legal proceedings it was precedent that Margaret's actions were driven by her master's abuse, although the ruling of the trial resulted in sentencing all the Garners to be taken back to their respective owners. To which Margaret passed later that