Lucy Stone

ID: 557
This file appears in: Slave Escape

Cincinnati-based abolitionist and woman suffrage advocate Lucy Stone, pictured here, visited the Garners while they were held in a Cincinnati jail, and later negotiated unsuccessfully with their owner, Archibald Gaines, to purchase the children. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Slave Escape

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1863 in Kenton County notes the escape of enslaved woman Margaret Garner, who murdered her daughter to prevent the child’s return to slavery. In the winter of 1856, Boone…