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Annotated Bibliography 

 

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by Steven Weisenburger                        Review by:Melton A. McLaurin Reviews in American History, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 250-253

In this article the author tells of the Maragret Garner case of Cinncinati Ohio. Tjey convey what details are known about the case. Sometimes throught the article the author speculates at the causation behind the instance of infantcide that took place in January of 1856.

 

 

 

In the Realm of Responsibility: A Conversation with Toni Morrison by Marsha Jean Darling and Toni                                 Morrison. The Women's Review of Books, Vol. 5, No. 6 (Mar., 1988), pp. 5-6

In this review the author tells of and speculates on the a conversation she had with the author Toni Morrison. In this converstaion they discuss the literature written by Toni Morrison such as Beloved. 

 

 Walters, Delores. "Margaret Garner." Http://www.margaretgarner.org/. 14 May 2012. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. . 

 

The Garner Fugitive Slave Case by Julius Yanuck. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 40, No. 1                        (Jun., 1953), pp. 47-66

This case discusses the ligusitics of what took place in the Maragret Garner case. In Januaray of 1856  this article says that Margret Garner killed her infant daughter. Priscilla, the infant who was killed was believed to be about six months old at the time. The majority of the article discusses the Fugitive Slave Act. 

 

 

 

Slavery and Motherhood in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" by Terry Paul Caesar. Revista de Letras, Vol. 34,                          (1994), pp. 111-120

This story discusses the book beloved. In the article they discuss the relationships in the book particularly that between sethe and beloved. They speculate that the act of infantcide committed by stethe in the novel was done out of love not out of insanity. They use chateristics of the relationship and and maternal instict to demonstrate this fact.

 

 

 

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. by Steven                                                Weisenburger Review by:Peter W. Bardaglio The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3, The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History: A Special Issue (Dec., 1999), pp. 1341-1342

 

 

In this article the author tells of the Maragret Garner case of Cinncinati Ohio. Tjey convey what details are known about the case. Sometimes throught the article the author speculates at the causation behind the instance of infantcide that took place in January of 1856.

 

 

 

 

WDRB. "Jessica Price told police it's possible she suffocated her newborn in Kohl's bathroom." Jessica                              Price told police she could have suffocated. N.p., 8 Jan. 2014. Web. 28 Oct. 2014. <http://www.wdrb.com/story/24399701/jessica-price-told-police>.

This is a news article that tells how Jessica Price, an employee at Khols in Louisville Kentucky, killed her newborn infant daughter who she had apprantly given birth to in the bathroom at her place of work. The infant was found in a dumpster outside the Kohls and was linked to Price through DNA and Video Survelinance evidence.

 

 

 

"Looking at History." : Infanticide: a case study. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2014                                                                          <http://richardjohnbr.blogspot.com/2010/10/infanticide-case-study.html>. 

This case study/ blog looks into and describes through a time line the reasons infantcide might have developed in London in the year 1856 through the nineteenth century.

 

 

 

Morgan, Cole. Reading On The Bus. 2011. Nikon FE , N/A. flickr.com. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.

 

 

Danielle, Johnson. Pettycoat. 2014. N/A , N/A. flickr.com. Web. 20 Oct. 2014.

 

 

Goggli, Christina. Sethe. 2010. Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Location N/A. Flickr.com. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

 

 

Mircale, Jill . Price. 2009. Canon EOS Rebel T3, Location N/A. Flickr.com. Web. 21 Oct. 2014.

 

 

Morrison, Toni. Beloved: a novel. New York: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 8, 2004), 1987. Print.

 

 

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