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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... conflicts and reaffirmed the belief that , with pa- tience , slavery could be gradually abolished . Moral imperatives aside , anti- slavery men in the revolutionary era evinced a healthy respect for property rights . So when Pierce ...
... conflict between state and federal law came before the federal cir- cuit court for the district of Indiana in 1818. An 1816 Indiana statute re- quired nonresidents making fugitive slave claims to obtain certificates of removal from a ...
... conflict- ing sovereignties claimed the right to legislate on a certain matter , the courts read the Constitution to determine whether the power belonged to the states or to Congress . This was the substance of the ruling in Susan . The ...
... tional duties of fugitive slave rendition and the protection of free black residents . Mounting opposition to slavery in the 1830s , however , turned these solutions into new conflicts . Just as the Fugitive 40 The Rescue of Joshua Glover -
... conflicts . Just as the Fugitive Slave Act had cre- ated a temptation to kidnapping , personal liberty laws provided aboli- tionists with the means to frustrate legitimate rendition of fugitive slaves . The increasing militancy of the ...
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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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