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Garner, a Black woman, points at a dead body on the ground and confronts a few onlooking white men, with two children clinging to her
"The Modern Medea. The story of Margaret Garner" (1867). (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Enslaved Missouri woman convicted of infanticide.

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"The Modern Medea. The story of Margaret Garner" (1867). (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Jane, an enslaved woman in Missouri, is convicted of murdering her infant child, Angeline, by poisoning her. Many Black feminists/scholars, organizers, amd abolitionists consider infanticide as being the most powerful form of Black mothers’ resistance during slavery.