Who speaks for Margaret Garner?
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
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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.