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Beloved by Toni Morrison
An 1864 illustration depicting “The Modern Medea: The Story of Margaret Garner.”

An 1864 illustration depicting “The Modern Medea: The Story of Margaret Garner.”

Citation Information
Noble, Thomas Satterwhite, “The Modern Medea - The Story of Margaret Garner,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/07ed41eee439fbbe15c2f1df035162b0.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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Item 4 of 11 in the Primary Source Set Beloved by Toni Morrison

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An excerpt of a video in which Professor Juliette Cherbuliez explains the Medea myth, 2009.
An 1852 image of a sculpture entitled The Jealousy of Medea.
An illustration of “Medea musing on the murder of her children,” 1869-1870.
An 1864 illustration depicting “The Modern Medea: The Story of Margaret Garner.”
A broadside announcing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
An illustration of slaves chained inside a 3’3” cargo hold.
An illustration of slave traders separating a black woman from her children, ca. 1838.
A picture of shackles used to punish slaves who attempted escape, ca. 1850.
An excerpt from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Browne Griffin, 1857.
A map of the nineteenth-century Underground Railroad, 2005.
An illustration, ca. 1857, captioned “The road to liberty; a station on the Underground Railroad.”

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