Morrison, Toni: 1931 - 2019
Beloved, 1987 - Background
- Audio (1:18)
The Story and Slavery. From Opera Carolina. NPR Radio; June 22, 2007 - Audio (1:24)
The African-American Opera Experience. From Opera Carolina. NPR Radio; June 22, 2007 - Margaret Garner
- Toni Morrison based her novel on the true story of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave who killed her child in Cincinnati in 1856 rather than see her returned to slavery at Maplewood Farm at 1154 Richwood Road in Boone County, Kentucky.
- Audio (2:17)
The Character of Margaret Garner. Margaret Garner swore she would kill her children and herself rather than return to slavery. From Opera Carolina. NPR Radio; June 22, 2007 - Audio (1:04)
The Language in 'Margaret Garner'. From Opera Carolina. NPR Radio; June 22, 2007 - Margaret Garner's life, from the Detroit Opera House
- The Margaret Garner story
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Part 2
- Born in Slavery; more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
- The Church in the Southern Black Community
- Jim Crow
- Timeline of the Anti-Slavery Movement