Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?

By: Mark Reinhardt

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Paperback | 8 November 2010

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A fascinating documentary history of the fugitive slave case that captivated the nation-and inspired Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel Beloved. 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 American history. Immersing readers in a wealth of fascinating documentary evidence, this book offers an exploration of such contentious issues as slavery and freedom, race and gender, party and region, and law and politics.

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"Mark Reinhardt's thoughtful presentation does American identity a tremendous favor. Although the theater may already have introduced Margaret Garner's sensational tragedy, only now can we follow her excruciating transit through competing jurisdictions and contentious representations. Reinhardt grapples honestly with the fine grain of racial subordination on the eve of the Civil War, paying attention to the silences of forgetting as well as the record of remembering." -Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol

"Of all the fugitive slave cases, the Margaret Garner case was singular. Reinhardt's comprehensive volume documents the full panoply of the public argument, in the courts and the popular media, North and South, over the meaning of Garner's actions as a freedom-seeking slave mother. Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? shows us why any effort to reclaim the ever-elusive Garner today must reckon with those who tried to speak for and against her more than 150 years ago." -William L. Andrews, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction: An Extraordinary Case?	p. 1
Documents
Escape and Capture	p. 49
In The Commissioner's Court	p. 60
Return	p. 119
Requisition?	p. 126
Whose Sovereignty?: Courts in Conflict	p. 143
The Ohio Legislature Responds: Debate on the Floor	p. 152
The Battle in the Press: Editorials on the Murder	p. 164
The Battle in the Press: Editorials on the Trial, Return, and Requisition	p. 177
Silence in the Deep South: The Case of Charleston, South Carolina	p. 207
Speeches, Sermons, and "Interviews"	p. 210
Final Developments	p. 232
Literary Sources, Literary Echoes	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 266
Appendix: Text of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850	p. 268
Chronology of Key Events, 1856-71	p. 275
Notes	p. 285
Selected Bibliography	p. 304
Index	p. 307
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