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Who speaks for Margaret Garner?

by Reinhardt, Mark.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Minnesota Press, (Minneapolis :) Physical details: xii, 317 p.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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