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Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
Modern Medea A Family Story of Slavery and ChildMurder from the Old South
Author: Steven Weisenburger
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809069538
ISBN-10: 0809069539
Publication Date: 10/1998
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Hill Wang Pub
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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