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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... justice of the most pernicious of all the Stuarts , James II . Jeffries had affirmed the right of his king to suspend habeas corpus and had engineered the " bloody assizes " in 1685 to punish rebels . Booth used these images consciously ...
... Justice Joseph Story authored the opinion of the court in Prigg v . Pennsylvania , the weight of settled authority establishing the consti- tutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act was far more qualified , circumscribed , and ambivalent ...
... justice of the Court of King's Bench in England , in the case of Somerset v . Stewart in 1772.5 Mansfield ruled that a slave brought to England could not be there re- strained . Slavery , said Mansfield , was against natural law and so ...
... justice or from labor — across state lines . Congress had to balance its constitutional duties with the sovereignty of the states and with the practical consideration that federal law - enforcement administration was skeletal at best ...
... justice , and persons escaping from the service of their masters , ” signed into law by President Washington on February 12 , 1793 , attempted a solution by specifying the legal process . Extradition required a copy of the indictment or ...
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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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