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Modern Medea exposes Margaret Garner and the Benton County case
UK professor Steven Weisenburger retraces Margaret Garner’s 1856 escape from Kentucky slavery, the Cincinnati fugitive slave trial, and the later life of Garner. He links Morrison’s Beloved to Garner’s story while presenting archival details on Gaines family, family dynamics, and the trial’s legal stakes.
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Lexington
Margaret Garner
Robert
Kentucky
Ohio
Free State
Cincinnati
Garner
Mary
Thomas
Samuel
Cilla
University of Kentucky
Steven Weisenburger
Lorain
Toni Morrison
Morrison
Sethe
Weisenbburger
Margaret
Weisenburger
Old South
Thomas Satterwhite Noble
Noble
America
Thomas Pynchon
History Department
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Maplewood
Interstate 75
Richwood
Garners
Robert Garner
Archibald Gaines
Mary Garner
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