title: On infanticide, the peculiar institution, and public memory. [Review of: Weisenburger, S. Modern medea: a family story of slavery and child-murder from the Old South. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998].
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: McLaurin
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