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Modern Medea: Family, Slavery & Child-Murder, Old South by S Weisenburger HC/DJ
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780809069538
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0809069539
ISBN-13
9780809069538
eBay Product ID (ePID)
986224
Product Key Features
Book Title
Modern Medea : a Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
United States / General, Criminology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-015565
Dewey Decimal
[B]
Synopsis
In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Gamer gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Margaret Garner's child-murder electrified the United States, inspiring the longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial in history. Abolitionists and slaveholders fought over the meaning of the murder, and the case came to symbolize the ills of the Union in those last dark decades before the Civil War. Newspaper columnists, poets, and dramatists raced to interpret Margaret's deeds, but by the century's end they were all but forgotten. Steven Weisenburger is the first scholar to delve into this astonishing story in more than a century. Weisenburger integrates his innovative archival discoveries into a dramatic narrative that paints a nuanced portrait of the not-so-genteel Southern culture of slavery and its destructive effect on all who lived in and with it.
LC Classification Number
E450.G225W45 1998
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