Modern Medea
A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved.In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Marga…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8090-6954-5
- EAN: 9780809069545
- Produktnummer: 9345275
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 473 g
- Abbildungen: 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
- Gewicht: 473
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Steven Weisenburger
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