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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... March 10 , 1854. He had been living and working on the outskirts of Racine , a burgeoning port city , for about two years . Glover was quiet and incon- spicuous . Then , on March 10 , he was arrested after nightfall as a fugitive slave ...
... March 16, 1854 IT WAS Friday night, March 10, 1854. Seven men stood outside Joshua Glover's cabin. They had departed from the port city of Racine in two wag- ons just before dusk to make the four-mile journey to Glover's home. The last ...
... March 10 , Glover was inside with two friends , William Alby and Nelson Turner , playing a game of cards when Garland's party knocked . Glover was suspicious . The U.S. marshals had been there the day before but , finding no one home ...
... March 1854. It was reason enough for Cotton and Garland to make the nearly six- hour journey on a cold March morning and lodge Joshua Glover in Mil- waukee's county jail in the hours just before dawn. March 11, 1854, began as most any ...
... March 11 , Booth received the Racine cable announcing that the Milwaukee jail held a fugitive slave . He went im- mediately to see the clerk of the district court , who told Booth to talk with Judge Miller . On his way to Miller's ...
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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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