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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... abolitionist cause in Wisconsin . His rescue at the end of the day on March II became the stuff of legend , and these events helped propel the Republican Party into power . Not everyone celebrated Glover's rescue . It was a black eye ...
... abolitionists and , sometimes , their failure to live up to the high standard they set for political and personal action . There are many to thank for completion of this project . I owe much to Joyce Appleby , my mentor , whose critical ...
... abolitionists about the arrest . The arresting party finally sub- dued Glover and put him , manacled and bleeding from the head , in one of the wagons . * The other wagon , carrying Kearney and his assistant Daniel F. Houghton , made ...
... abolitionist town . Milwaukee was larger and more anonymous , and it represented more diverse interests . It had the added benefit of being the seat of Judge Miller and of the U.S. com- missioner for Wisconsin , Winfield Smith . Either ...
... Abolitionists in Racine knew, and they rang the bells to awaken the city. Shortly after 9:00 Am, the “largest meeting of citizens ever assembled in Racine” gathered in the courthouse square. While speakers addressed the crowd, a ...
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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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