BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20180301T230000Z DTEND:20180302T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:John & Francie Pepper Freedom Lecture Series with Dr. Nikki Taylor DESCRIPTION:Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who\, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati\, killed her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved\, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey\, and an opera. Yet\, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio\, historian Nikki M. Taylor brilliantly captures her circumstances and her transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of tragedy and resistance.\n\n\n\nTaylor\, the first African American woman to write a history of Garner\, grounds her approach in black feminist theory. She melds history with trauma studies to account for shortcomings in the written record. In so doing\, she rejects distortions and fictionalized images\; probes slavery's legacies of sexual and physical violence and psychic trauma in new ways\; and finally fleshes out a figure who had been rendered an apparition. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:


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\nMargaret Garner was the runaway slave who\, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati\, killed her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison&rsquo\;s Beloved\, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey\, and an opera. Yet\, her life has defied solid historical treatment. In Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio\, historian Nikki M. Taylor brilliantly captures her circumstances and her transformation from a murdering mother to an icon of tragedy and resistance.
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\nTaylor\, the first African American woman to write a history of Garner\, grounds her approach in black feminist theory. She melds history with trauma studies to account for shortcomings in the written record. In so doing\, she rejects distortions and fictionalized images\; probes slavery&rsquo\;s legacies of sexual and physical violence and psychic trauma in new ways\; and finally fleshes out a figure who had been rendered an apparition.

\n LOCATION:National Underground Railroad Freedom Center 50 E Freedom Way Cincinnati\, OH 45202 UID:e.818.6414 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260408T213427Z URL:https://business.hccusa.us/events/details/john-francie-pepper-freedom-lecture-series-with-dr-nikki-taylor-6414 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR