“To find out more about the background to the Civil War and Lincoln’s assassination, Lucy asks Dr. Nikki M. Taylor, Professor of History at Howard University Washington DC, to go to Ford’s Theatre and to the Surratt House Museum, formerly Mary’s Surratt’s tavern in Maryland. Mary Surratt, she discovers, was a slave-holder and, like John Wilkes Booth, was horrified by Lincoln’s intention to end slavery and enfranchise African Americans.”

Gerald Horne interviews Professor Nikki Taylor about her important research and book: Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance.

Black lives change dramatically following the American Revolution, as individuals including Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen and Frederick Douglass push the issue of slavery to the forefront of national politics. Nikki Taylor featured 41:41-49:57.

Actress Zooey Deschanel searches for the truth behind the rumor that her father’s ancestors were involved in the anti-slavery movement in the lead up to the Civil War. Nikki Taylor featured (16:29-21:26)

Dr. Nikki M. Taylor and Dr. Karen Cook-Bell are in conversation over Zoom, hosted by City Lights’ Peter Marvels.

Nikki M. Taylor's book talk and reading of Brooding Over Bloody Revenge at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. (August 18, 2023).

Lucy explores the story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved mother in 1850s America, who commits a murder that transforms her into an icon of tragedy and resistance. Her life inspired Tony Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning novel Beloved. To explore Margaret Garner’s remarkable story and its contemporary resonances Lucy is joined by Nikki M Taylor, Professor of African American History at Howard University in Washington DC and the author of Driven Towards Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio.