Who speaks for Margaret Garner?

Who speaks for Margaret Garner?

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Main Author: Reinhardt, Mark
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Garner, Margaret > Trials, litigation, etc.
Garner, Margaret > Public opinion.
Trials (Infanticide) > Ohio > Cincinnati.
Infanticide > Ohio > Cincinnati > History > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ohio > Cincinnati.
Fugitive slaves > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
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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.

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