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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... Prigg v. Pennsylvania. In the eyes of the law, then, the Fugitive Slave Act was constitutional, and the people of Wisconsin had adopted an extralegal attack on its execution. This conclusion, while satisfyingly simple, misleads. It ...
... Prigg v . Pennsylvania , the weight of settled authority establishing the consti- tutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act was far more qualified , circumscribed , and ambivalent than he claimed . Nor did Prigg settle The Fugitive Slave Act 27 ...
... Prigg settle the matter . Discon- tent and disagreement led to congressional action and a new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. The new law dramatically altered accepted practices and led to resistance far more ferocious than any that the ...
... Prigg among them — arrested Ashmore's fugitive slave residing in Pennsylvania . They brought the fugi- tive and her children before the justice of the peace who had issued the ini- tial arrest warrant , but he refused to have anything ...
... Prigg , these " sacrifices " now became a necessity for adop- tion of the Constitution.67 This was bad history . It inaccurately lumped the fugitive slave clause together with the more serious compromises over con- gressional ...
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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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