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

Publication Info.	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages) : illustrations.
Series	New approaches to midwestern studies
	New approaches to Midwestern studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 27, 2017).
Summary	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.
Subject	Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858.
	Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Garner, Margaret, 1834-1858. (OCoLC)fst01772692
	Fugitive slaves -- Kentucky -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
	Infanticide -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- Case studies.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Infanticide. (OCoLC)fst00972084
	Fugitive slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00935943
	Fugitive slaves. (OCoLC)fst00935940
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Ohio -- Cincinnati. (OCoLC)fst01205142
	Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
Genre/Form	Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN	9780821445860 (electronic bk.)
	0821445863 (electronic bk.)

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