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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... assembly , " as it was made " without the exhibition of any papers " but by knocking him down with a club . The second resolution stated that " as citizens of Racine , " the assembly demanded that Glover be afforded a fair and impartial ...
... assemblies followed the same formula. The 1847 rally in support of the proposed state constitution marched through all the wards before settling at the courthouse steps, where citizens of note deliv- ered speeches.22 Not every crowd ...
... assemblies formed a vital part of the revolutionary movement . What some might have condemned as riotous violence , others defended on the principle of popular action.34 Deeply embedded in the American Revolu- tion was the concept that ...
... 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 heavily in real estate and was one of the directors of the ...
... assembly adopted the motion and amended the resolution.60 The second resolution exalted the writ of habeas corpus , noting that it was “ the great defense of Free- dom , " and demanded " for this prisoner , as well as for our own ...
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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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