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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... federal officers charged with enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act ... courts . Antislavery Republicans came to power in Wisconsin and arrayed the ... federal government through the coming of the Civil War . This book traces the means by ...
... federal courts. —Milwaukee Sentinel, March 16, 1854 IT WAS Friday night, March 10, 1854. Seven men stood outside Joshua Glover's cabin. They had departed from the port city of Racine in two wag- ons just before dusk to make the four ...
... federal courts, and, more than once, lawyers had argued that its provisions were unconstitutional and void. Yet the ... courts and, necessarily, by the U.S. Supreme Court. It also denigrates the role of popular resistance, suggesting ...
... courts settled the question in favor of consti- tutionality is also flawed . It is true that the act's supporters ... federal officers to pro- vide for the reclaiming of fugitive slaves and left to the states the matter of protecting free ...
... federal antikidnapping legislation , slaveholders evinced a ruthless efficiency in uniting against any perceived ... courts as definitive and imposed penalties on any state officers refusing to aid in 26 fugitive slave reclamation ...
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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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