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Who speaks for Margaret Garner? [electronic resource] / Mark Reinhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinhardt, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Infanticide)--Ohio--Cincinnati.
- Trials (Infanticide).
- Infanticide--Ohio--Cincinnati--History--19th century.
- Infanticide.
- Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc--Ohio--Cincinnati.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Fugitive slaves--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Garner, Margaret--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Garner, Margaret.
- Garner, Margaret--Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Other Title:
- Who speaks for Margaret Garner? : the true story that inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. As the captors sought to enter the house, Garner killed her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mary. Reports suggested that she had tried to kill her three other children, too. These events were instantly sensationalized in the media, stimulating heated debates throughout the country: What did it mean th
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-7527-9
- OCLC:
- 699513563
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