Modern Medea : a family story of slavery and child-murder from the Old South /

Modern Medea : a family story of slavery and child-murder from the Old South /

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A documentary account of the fugitive slave Margaret Garner who, when her family's sanctuary was surrounded by slave hunters in 1856, murdered one daughter and planned to kill her other children rather than see them returned to slavery. The case inspired "the longest, most spectacular fugi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisenburger, Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Garner, Margaret, > 1834-1858.
Garner, Margaret, > 1834-1858 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Garner, Margaret.
Garner, Margaret > Trials, litigation, etc.
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.
Esclaves fugitifs > Kentucky > Biographies.
Infanticide > Ohio > Cincinnati > Études de cas.
Fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc.
Infanticide.
Fugitive slaves > United States > Biography.
Infanticide > United States.
Kentucky.
Ohio > Cincinnati.
United States.
Biography
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
Études de cas.

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