Who speaks for Margaret Garner? /
In January 1856, Margaret Garner and her family were at the center of one of the most dramatic and intensely contested fugitive slave cases in the nation's history. Just hours after escaping slavery in Kentucky and taking refuge in a home in Cincinnati, the Garners were cornered by authorities....
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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.