Driven toward Madness (New Approaches to Midwestern History): The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio (New Approaches to Midwestern Studies)

by NikkiM.Taylor (Author), NikkiM.Taylor (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2017

  $26.39

  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 on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera.