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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... arguments and extend my research . Ricky S. Huard is a first - rate editor and has labored mightily to make this book readable . Of course , one cannot work on fugitive slaves without dealing with the prodigious scholarship of Paul ...
... argued that the territories were common property and that not even a territorial legislature could keep slavery out . They defended the extension of slavery on principle . Popular sovereignty , many southerners believed , was a northern ...
... argue , a German vociferously challenged the Irish to fight . This continued “ until the Irish blood was up , ” and a bloody riot ensued . The Irish won the ground , chased away the Germans , and kept a “ murderous fire of stones and ...
... argument and romantic rhetoric. This was the man, after all, who later called Supreme Court justice Samuel Nelson ... arguments: the Fugitive Slave Act was illegitimate because it violated constitutional guarantees. Constitutions in the ...
... argued about whether he should go back to slavery , re- gardless of any constitutional imperative to return fugitives to southern states . Some spoke openly of rescue . Tempers rose , and several speakers addressed the crowd . This time ...
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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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