Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio / / Nikki M. Taylor
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| Autore: |
Taylor Nikki Marie <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Driven toward madness : the fugitive slave Margaret Garner and tragedy on the Ohio / / Nikki M. Taylor
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Disciplina: | 306.3/62092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Ohio Cincinnati | |
| Kentucky | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Driven toward madness |
| ISBN: | 0-8214-4586-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910162712803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New approaches to Midwestern studies.