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Who speaks for Margaret Garner?
Author
Title
Who speaks for Margaret Garner? / Mark Reinhardt.
ISBN
9780816642588 (hc : alk. paper)
0816642583 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816642595 (pb : alk. paper)
0816642591 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xii, 317 p. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN JWJ Zan St445 Zz2010R: Number line on title page verso indicates first printing: "17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Paperbound, 23 cm. From the Robert B. Stepto papers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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