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1865--Desperate Mother
Frances Graves, newly freed from enslavement in Boone County, poisoned her sons, Granville and William Henry Graves, with Strychnine, killing both. Her reasoning at trial was they would be "better off."
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1858--Enslaved Mother Kills Newborn
An enslaved woman held by Mr. Cleveland in Florence, gave birth to a child then killed the child and hid the remains.
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1834--Enslaved Mother Kills Two Children
An enslaved woman in Boone County took the lives of her two children to "relieve them from the curse of involuntary servitude." One child was thrown in a well, one was smothered in a ditch.
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1834--Enslaved Mother Kills Only Child
An enslaved woman in Boone County took the life of her only child, around the same time and near the same neighborhood as another mother who killed her two children.