Margaret Garner was the runaway Slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery.
In so doing, she rejects distortions and fictionalized images; probes slavery\'s legacies of sexual and physical violence and psychic trauma in new ways; and finally fleshes out a figure who had been rendered an apparition..
She melds history with trauma studies to account for shortcomings in the written record.
Taylor, the first African American woman to write a history of Garner, grounds her approach in black feminist theory.
Taylor brilliantly captures her circumstances and her transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of Tragedy and resistance.
In Driven Toward Madness, Nikki M.
Yet, her life has defied solid historical treatment.
Her story has inspired Toni Morrison\'s Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera.
Margaret Garner was the runaway Slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery
