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Modern Medea. a Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South.
by Weisenburger, Steven
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0809069539
- ISBN 13
- 9780809069538
- Seller
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Hill And Wang, N. Y.. As New in As New dust jacket. 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 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quinn & Davis Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- QD1147
- Title
- Modern Medea. a Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South.
- Author
- Weisenburger, Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0809069539
- ISBN 13
- 9780809069538
- Publisher
- Hill And Wang, N. Y.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0809069539, Slavery, Americana, Black History, Margaret Garner.
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About the Seller
Quinn & Davis Booksellers
Biblio member since 2003
Austin, Texas
About Quinn & Davis Booksellers
We have been selling Fine Used Books for 20 years. Currently we sell on the internet and at bookfairs. We list any defect in a book and then assign an overall grade (Fine, Near Fine, Very Good)to the dust jacket and then to the book.
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