Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio / Nikki M. Taylor.
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TextSeries: New approaches to Midwestern studiesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821445860
- 0821445863
- Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858
- Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Garner, Margaret 1834-1858
- Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858
- Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858
- Fugitive slaves -- Kentucky -- Biography
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ohio -- Cincinnati
- Infanticide -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Case studies
- Esclaves fugitifs -- Kentucky -- Biographies
- Infanticide -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Études de cas
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- HISTORY / United States / General
- Infanticide
- Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Fugitive slaves
- United States
- Ohio -- Cincinnati
- Kentucky
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- E450.G225 T39 2016eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: bodies and souls -- "Hope fled" -- Before the blood -- After the blood -- "Faded faces" tell secrets; or do they? -- Driven by madness, badness, or sadness? -- A kind of hero.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 27, 2017).
The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery-has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera.
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