Kentucky remembers slavers, not slaves as racists attack `critical race theory'

 

John Pollard Gaines, Member of Congress from Kentucky, Governor of the Oregon Territory,

slaveholder 

Dan Farbman tweets the story of Margaret Garner, a slave who escaped to Ohio.  On capture she killed one of her children, and tried to kill the others and herself rather than be returned to slavery under the Fugitive Slave law.  She failed, and after a highly publicized trial was sold down river by Gaines, and  died doing hard labor on a Mississippi plantation.  Her story was the basis for Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved.

Thanks to Boston College historian Dan Farbman her story is being re-told.  Meanwhile rather than study history racists and fools around the country are spinning laws against "critical race theory". - GWC