50 Years/50 Collections: “‘Betty Sayes’: Examining Margaret Aurelia Porter v. Reuben Reynolds.”
Author Lauren A. Heintz is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Tulane University. I first looked at the holdings at the Amistad Center for the case Margaret Aurelia Porter v. Reuben Reynolds (1810-1812) in September of 2015. Over the last seven months, these files had lingered in my mind and kept pulling me in because there was a significance to the case that I was worried would go left unmentioned. I was worried, in part, because while the cas