Who speaks for Margaret Garner? [electronic resource] / Mark Reinhardt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.Description: xii, 317 pOther title:
  • Who speaks for Margaret Garner? : the true story that inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • E450.G225 R44 2010eb
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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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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.

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