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New York Hill and Wang 1998 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket Book First edition, hardcover. 352 pages. Fine unread in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. The true story of a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, who murdered her child rather than have her returned to slavery, inspring the longest fugitive-slave trial in United States' history.

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ISBN10: 0809069539, ISBN13: 9780809069538, [publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hill & Wang, 1998] Hardcover First Edition ISBN:0809069539, hardback, Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ; slight amount of bumping to spine ends of book, trace of light wear to DJ and DJ edges, an unread (new) book, illustrated with maps and pictures, 8vo., 352 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0
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Hill And Wang, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. Date: 1998. First Edition. Hard cover with dust jacket. 0809069539 . "In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. " Surrounded, before her capture, she nearly decapitated her 2 year old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. This is the story and events behind Toni Morrison's BELOVED. 352 pages, notes, bibliography and index. Dust jacket and book are in Very Fine, as new condition.; 352 pages . 1998. Hill And Wang, N. Y. ISBN 0809069539 9780809069538 [US]

ISBN10: 0809069539, ISBN13: 9780809069538, [publisher: Hill & Wang Pub] Softcover First Edition 352 S. ; Ill. / 352 p. w. illustrations. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband lichtbedingt etwas ausgeblichen, ansonsten sehr guter Zustand. / part of the cover slightly faded due to light, otherwise very good condition. - In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-okl Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives' sanctuary 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. CONTENTS: Prologue -- Fugitive -- Captive -- Defendant -- Slave -- Legend -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. ILLUSTRATIONS -- Detail, "The Modern Medea" I -- John Pollard Gaines John Pollard Gaines family Map of northern and central Kentucky I Slave inhabitants I Gaines genealogy Garner-Kite genealogy Map of Walton ...
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New York: Hill & Wang. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Date: 1998. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 352 pp. . 1998. Hill & Wang ISBN 0809069539 9780809069538 [US]

NY: Hill and Wang, Date: 1998. BC Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. 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. Record # 383938 1998. Hill and Wang ISBN 0809069539 9780809069538 [US]

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Hill & Wang, Date: 1998. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. The first in-depth historical account of the events that inspired Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Garner 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 ...

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ISBN10: 0809069539, ISBN13: 9780809069538, [publisher: Hill & Wang Pub] Hardcover First Edition Photo is the book you will receive. In very nice condition with nominal wear, a tight binding and nice clean text with no markings, notes or highlighting.
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