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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... Duty to Resist 80 five The Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act 112 six The Constitution before the People 135 seven Denouement 162 Coda: The Ends of History 178 Notes 189 Selected Bibliography 237 Index 253 illustrations ...
... Duty to Resist 80 five The Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Act 112 six The Constitution before the People 135 seven Denouement 162 Coda: The Ends of History 178 Notes 189 Selected Bibliography 237 Index 253 Vll ...
... duties are both respect for the ordinary process of law and the defense of fundamental rights . To understand this properly , one must ex- plain how and why these duties and privileges were denied to black Ameri- cans . This was not an ...
... duty , community participation , and a healthy suspicion of centralized power . It would , I think , have made Jefferson smile . And finally , I owe a debt of gratitude to Jan Berry Baker . I met her in 2001 at the Green Mill , a jazz ...
... duties of the citizen at the ballot box . " 14 After Yale , Booth Figure 1.2 . Sherman Booth was the first Milwaukee abolitionist. Figure 1.1 . Bird's - eye view of Milwaukee , 1853. Photo courtesy of the Milwaukee County Historical ...
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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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