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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... 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.
... Paine , who told him that a fugitive slave had indeed been deposited in the Mil- waukee jail . They hurried there together to see the fugitive . Like Sherman Booth , James Paine had cut his teeth on the Liberty Party revolt and the Free ...
... Paine left Painesville - a town named after his family - to pursue more lucrative opportunities in Milwaukee . He opened a law firm with his sons and practiced primarily commercial law . Paine never abandoned his passion for the age's ...
... Paine , and other Milwaukeeans reconvened in Booth's office at one o'clock to telegraph a report of the events to Racine and decide what to do next . They understood that Judge Miller , despite the writ of habeas corpus , intended to ...
... Paine called the meet- ing to order — and thus gave the assembly its legal sanction — he nomi- nated for its president Dr. Edward B. Wolcott . An antislavery man , Wolcott was also a prominent citizen of Milwaukee . He had invested ...
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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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