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Margaret Garner
Based on her story, she escaped from her owner and managed to get over the Ohio river however she was found by a group of owners so she killed her youngest child with a butcher knife and attempted to kill the others
Chattle slavery
Slaves being treated as animals
Chain gangs
A group of convicts chained together doing hard labour and being responsible for each others lives
The middle passage
A voyage that traded Africans and items such as coffee and tobacco, the slaves were cramped together so many died
Rememory
The return of the repressed
Succubus
A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men, B slept with PD so believed she is this
Toni Morrison
- Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio.
- Grew up during the Depression.
- Grandparents moved north from the south. Father from Georgia.
- Married Harold Morrison. Ended in 1964. Refuses to talk about her marriage
Fugitive slave act
Required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state
Infanticide
The murder of a child
Magic Realism
Something normal to the characters but bizarre to the reader