Who speaks for Margaret Garner? / Mark Reinhardt.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 317 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : an extraordinary case?
  • Documents
  • Escape and capture
  • In the Commissioner's Court
  • Return
  • Requisition?
  • Whose sovereignty? : courts in conflict
  • The Ohio legislature responds : debate on the floor
  • The battle in the press : editorials on the murder
  • The battle in the press : editorials on the trial, return, and requisition
  • Silence in the deep South : the case of Charleston, South Carolina
  • Speeches, sermons, and "interviews"
  • Final developments
  • Literary sources, literary echoes
  • Appendix: Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
  • Chronology of key events, 1856-71.