Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by Steven Weisenburger

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South

Steven Weisenburger

368 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved.In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced nor...

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