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Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner - Frederickson, Mary E (Contributions by), and Walters, Delores M (Contributions by), and Hine, Darlene Clark (Foreword by)
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Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example--the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner--as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered ...

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Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner 2013, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Il

ISBN-13: 9780252079429

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Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner 2013, University of Illinois Press

ISBN-13: 9780252037900

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