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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... defended the extension of slavery on principle . Popular sovereignty , many southerners believed , was a northern ruse to open territories to settlement faster than southerners could fill them . For northerners , popular sovereignty was ...
... defending Glover , they added a third . Blaming the Senate for repealing " all compro- mises heretofore adopted by the Congress of the United States , " the citi- zens of Wisconsin “ declare the Slavecatching law of 1850 , disgraceful ...
... defending the party from attacks by radical abolition- ists like William Lloyd Garrison . Before long , he was advocating an alliance with like - minded Democrats . After attending the convention in Buffalo , New York , that announced ...
... defended on the principle of popular action.34 Deeply embedded in the American Revolu- tion was the concept that the people , properly organized , might act on their own . This idea of direct popular action became central to American ...
... defend direct action by the people. Two generations of practice had cemented voluntary association and popular government into the foundations of American democracy . But these same generations also Rescuing Joshua Glover 23.
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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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