Modern Medea : a family story of slavery and child-murder from the Old South
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 fugitive-slave trial in history" and a number of literary interpretations, including Toni Morrison's Beloved
Print Book, English, 1998
1st ed
Hill and Wang, New York, 1998