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Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
Ohio Univ. Dec. 2016. 152p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780821421604. pap. $22.95. HIST
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The events delicately detailed in Taylor's (African American history, Texas Southern Univ.; Frontiers of Freedom) work may be familiar to some as the subject of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. Taylor presents here a well-written and thoroughly researched account of Margaret Garner, an African American slave who attempted to escape from Kentucky to the free state of Ohio with her family in 1856. The story of Garner, who killed one of her children to prevent them from a life of slavery after being captured in Ohio by their owners, is quickly related by Taylor. Much of the book is a reexamination of Garner's trial and an examination of the conditions of her traumatic bondage. The author's background as a historian of the period brings a fresh look at this unfortunate event.
VERDICT Taylor crafts a book that should be read by all who have an interest in understanding the roots of slavery and oppression of women during the pre-Civil War era. It should also be read by those seeking to understand the depth of pain and depravity faced by women living under the tyranny of American slavery.
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