FINDING THE GHOST OF BELOVED Part 3: DESPERATE MOMENTS OF FREEDOM
“THE CLIPPING ABOUT MARGARET GARNER STUCK IN MY HEAD”--TONI MORRISON ON SUNDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 27, 1856, SOMETIME AFTER TEN O’CLOCK, ROBERT GARNER GRABBED HIS MASTER’S LOADED PISTOL, WENT TO THE BARN AND HITCHED TWO OF HIS MASTER’S FINEST HORSES TO A SLEIGH. He boarded the sleigh along with his parents and drove to the neighboring Gaines plantation to pick up his wife Margaret and her fo...
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