Margaret Garner: Diversity and Depth of Love

Margaret Garner slit her daughter's throat to protect her from American slavery in 1856. The tale was fictionalized in Toni Morrison's BELOVED, but a young white mother began researching the true story in 1994.

Now two-books-in-one, MARGARET GARNER: DIVERSITY AND DEPTH OF LOVE offer readers a unique metanarrative, incorporating traditional historical research, archeological exploration, and modern-day spiritual contact, all with the aim of reaching the highest possible truth.

Book One, DIVERSITY OF LOVE, describes the events surrounding the American slave mother s child murder: details of Kentucky slavery, including the selling of mulatto women as sex slaves; Margaret s owners two brothers (one a former Governor of Oregon and the other a possible batterer who killed his wife); the wealthy neighbors and their Presbyterian Church where Margaret was a member; her federal trial and verdict in slavery-friendly Cincinnati, located in free Ohio; nineteenth-century interviews with Margaret and her husband (a black Civil War soldier); plus, modern archeological excavation results from Margaret s farm.

Ten per cent of Book One includes material the author gleaned from deceased individuals, via interviews with American clairvoyant medium, Terri Coleman (angelicdevas.com). Rooted in the notion of calling on the ancestors, the author describes its genre as Historical Spiritual Non-Fiction and separates the material by the use of italics.

Book Two, DEPTH OF LOVE is a Memoir of the author s 1997 to 2001 paranormal experience with Garner and other individuals, which revealed her past-life connection as Margaret's murdered child. A profound true story, culminating in a life-changing experience with breast cancer, Caputo journeys from atheism to religious and therapeutic practices, transforming her suffering and healing a murdered child s wound after more than a hundred years.