Who speaks for Margaret Garner? [electronic resource] / Mark Reinhardt.
Material type:
- Who speaks for Margaret Garner? : the true story that inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved
- 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
- 306.3/62092 B 22
- E450.G225 R44 2010eb
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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