Margaret Garner
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Margaret Garner was an enslaved African-American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery. Garner and her fam
Thomas Satterwhite Noble's 1867 painting The Modern Medea was based on Garner's story.
Toni Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically
Margaret Garner
…her remaining family were taken back south into slavery. Garner's story was the inspiration for the novel Beloved (1987) by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and its subsequent adaptation into a film of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey (1998). Garner, who was mixed-race and described at the time with the…
Morrison in 1998
Morrison's portrait on the first-edition dust jacket of The Bluest Eye (1970)
Morrison, with her sons Ford (left) and Slade (right) at their upstate New York home, between 1980 and 1987
Morrison speaking in 2008