Excerpt from “The Uncanny,” Sigmund Freud, Jeanette Laredo, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License and powered by Press Books, 1919
“Lady Button-Eyes,” Eugene Field, Poem in Google Book Form, 1984
“Who is Margaret Garner?,” Unknown, Ohio Memory, 2012
PBS NewsHour: “Toni Morrison on Capturing a Mother’s ‘Compulsion’ to Nurture in ‘Beloved’,” Toni Morrison, PBS, 1987
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“‘The Slave Mother, a Tale of Ohio,’ by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,” Hendley Badcock, Shenandoah, 1854