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Autore |
Taylor Nikki Marie <1972-> |
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Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio / / Nikki M. Taylor |
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Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
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Collana |
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New approaches to Midwestern studies |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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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