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Quiz for Document 14–4: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, 1880

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. How did Coffin describe Margaret Garner’s response to the verdict in her case?

She ranted and raved to make a scene as she was forced into the port for deportation.

She armed herself and died trying to fight her recapture.

She tried to the see the upside of the return to slavery—a reunion with her children.

She jumped off her transport boat and tried to kill herself and her young child.

2. How had Garner, her family, and their fellow slaves planned to escape slavery?

They wanted to kill their master and then flee.

They planned to escape to Ohio by crossing the frozen Ohio River.

They fled toward the free western territories.

They planned to find the home of a prominent abolitionist and request aid.

3. Why did Coffin and other abolitionists believe Garner murdered her daughter?

She disliked her daughter because the child was the daughter of her master.

Slavery had twisted her moral compass and made her more prone to evil acts.

She was mentally disturbed.

She thought death was preferable to the deplorable conditions of slavery.

4. What happened to Garner and her family after the verdict in the trial?

They were returned to their masters and sent down toward New Orleans.

They were sentenced to prison.

They were sent to plantations in the Caribbean.

They were severely punished by their masters and sent back to their plantations in Kentucky.