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.