1834--Enslaved Mother Kills Two Children

Title: 1834--Enslaved Mother Kills Two Children
Date: Jul 1834
Formatted date: 1834-07-26
Event type: Infanticide
Description: 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.
Participant: African American(s): unknown woman; Slave holder(s): unknown
Location: Boone County (Ky.)
Bibliographic citation: Mother Murders Two Children, The Liberator, Boston, MA, 26 Jul 1834
Source: Mother Murders Two Children