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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162712803321

Autore

Taylor Nikki Marie <1972->

Titolo

Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio / / Nikki M. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8214-4586-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations, portrait

Collana

New approaches to Midwestern studies

Disciplina

306.3/62092

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Soggetti

Fugitive slaves - Kentucky

Fugitive slaves - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Fugitive slaves - Legal status, laws, etc - Ohio - Cincinnati

Fugitive enslaved persons - Kentucky

Fugitive enslaved persons - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Fugitive enslaved persons - Legal status, laws, etc - Ohio - Cincinnati

Infanticide - Ohio - Cincinnati

United States

Ohio Cincinnati

Kentucky

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.