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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... Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data The rescue of Joshua Glover : a fugitive slave , the constitution , and the coming of the civil war / H. Robert Baker . p . cm . ― ( Ohio University Press series on law , society , and ...
... Congress , the National Archives at College Park , the Na- tional Archives Regional Facility in Chicago , the State Historical Society of Wisconsin , and the Milwaukee Urban Archives . I owe much to Steve Daily and Kevin Abing , the ...
... Congress , and contemplated political coalitions to organize this opposition into a third party . So the arrest of Joshua Glover took on a greater significance than it might otherwise have had . Emotions ran high over slavery in the ...
... Congress of the United States , " the citi- zens of Wisconsin “ declare the Slavecatching law of 1850 , disgraceful , and also repealed . " 13 After adjourning the meeting until 1:00 PM , the commit- tee telegraphed its proceedings and ...
... Congress asking for — and sometimes demanding — the repeal of the act on constitutional grounds . Given the composition of Congress in 1854 , this was unlikely , but Wis- consinites worked to change this after Glover's rescue by making ...
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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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