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A link about Margaret Garner
(Courtesy Cincinnati Museum Center

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Margaret Garner | African American Resources | Cincinnati History Library and Archives

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Guide to African American Resources at the Cincinnati History Library and Archives

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Beloved is a novel inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped with her family from slavery in Kentucky to freedon in Ohio in 1856. When US Marshals apprehended the family under the Fugitive Slave Act, Margaret Garner murdered on of her children, a daughter, rather than see her enslaved again. In Morrison's novel, Sether, the portagonist, and her daughter Denver are haunted by the ghost of the child Sethe kills. A mysterious young woman appears and called herself Beloved, the name on the tombstone of Sethe's dead daughter. Sethe believes the woman is her murdered child and guilt overcomes her as Beloved takes over her life.
Beloved received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988, and in 1993, Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dedicated to the estimated "sixty million and more" people who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade, Beloved combines magical and realistic elements and explores themes of love and justice. It is a book that you will not forget.

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An illustration of slave traders separating a Black woman from her children, 1838
(Courtesy New York Public Library)

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As excerpt from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Browne, 1857.
(Courtesy Wellesley College Library)

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Autobiography of a female slave : Browne, Martha Griffith, -1906 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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An illustration of slaves chained inside a 3 by 3 cargo hold.
(courtesy of New York Public Library)

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An illustration captioned "The Road to Liberty: a station on the Underground railroad, 1857.
(Courtesy The New York Public Library)

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A pictures of shackles used to punish slaves who attempted to escape.
(Courtesy of Univ. of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign