Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor

Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio

Nikki M. Taylor

180 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a film based o...

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