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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... different paths to disguise the whereabouts of the fugitive. That they chose to make a thirty-mile journey in the dead of night when Racine was only a few miles away indicated that they expected no hospitality in that staunchly ...
... different matter altogether. This clash was one of the first tests of the law's constitutionality. Several very different positions had been staked out. Pindall, for example, believed it completely constitutional for Congress to direct ...
... different modes of reclamation, one prescribed by Congress and the other by Indiana, were now in conflict, the case ended up in the federal district court. The lawyer for Susan, the alleged fugitive, suggested that the Fugitive Slave ...
... different procedure for rendition, was invalid. How Indiana's laws might operate on a free black, the court declined to say. But the state of Indiana did. When slave catchers removed Susan without complying with Indiana law, a grand ...
... different category than free blacks, and the remedies available to an individual were determined by his or her status. The highest courts of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania had not given an unqualified judicial endorsement 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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