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Subtitle: The Slave Margaret.
Title: Provincial Freeman - April 5, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer relates different versions of the fate of Margaret Garner, her baby, and those aboard the steamship Henry Lewis.
Description of file(s): two scanned newspaper pages (three columns)
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Subtitle: Loss of the Steamer H. Lewis.
Title: Provincial Freeman - March 22, 1856
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Provincial Freeman (1853 - 1859)
The writer tells his readers of a recent shipwreck that took the life of Margaret Garner, the fugitive slave who killed her child rather than see it sold into slavery, as she was being returned to her owner.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column