The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil WarOhio University Press, 2006 M12 31 - 272 páginas On March 11, 1854, the people of Wisconsin prevented agents of the federal government from carrying away the fugitive slave, Joshua Glover. Assembling in mass outside the Milwaukee courthouse, they demanded that the federal officers respect his civil liberties as they would those of any other citizen of the state. When the officers refused, the crowd took matters into its own hands and rescued Joshua Glover. The federal government brought his rescuers to trial, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court intervened and took the bold step of ruling the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional. The Rescue of Joshua Glover delves into the courtroom trials, political battles, and cultural equivocation precipitated by Joshua Glover’s brief, but enormously important, appearance in Wisconsin on the eve of the Civil War. H. Robert Baker articulates the many ways in which this case evoked powerful emotions in antebellum America, just as the stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was touring the country and stirring antislavery sentiments. Terribly conflicted about race, Americans struggled mightily with a revolutionary heritage that sanctified liberty but also brooked compromise with slavery. Nevertheless, as The Rescue of Joshua Glover demonstrates, they maintained the principle that the people themselves were the last defenders of constitutional liberty, even as Glover’s rescue raised troubling questions about citizenship and the place of free blacks in America. |
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... Joshua Glover 65 Figure 4.1. Andrew G. Miller 84 Figure 4.2. Anti-Slave-Catchers' Mass Convention handbill 93 Figure 4.3. Edward G. Ryan 95 Figure 4.4. Byron Paine 105 PREFACE It is doubtful that many in Wisconsin knew of ix Illustrations.
... Byron Paine to explain the legal technicalities . Byron was James Paine's youngest son , and possibly his brightest . He had developed a stronger taste for politics and reform than had his brothers . He began addressing political ...
... Paine to report on lectures and trials in 1853 and 1854. He did so despite having bristled earlier at the sug ... Byron Paine. Paine explained to the crowd that the Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional “inasmuch as it denied the Writ ...
... Byron Paine , from his place in the crowd , moved that the resolution be amended to read that he was " entitled to a fair and impartial trial by jury . " The assembly adopted the motion and amended the resolution.60 The second ...
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3 The Disappearance of Joshua Glover | 58 |
4 Citizenship and the Duty to Resist | 80 |
5 The Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act | 112 |
6 The Constitution before the People | 135 |
7 Denouement | 162 |
The Ends of History | 178 |
Notes | 189 |
Selected Bibliography | 237 |
index | 253 |
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