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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... issues , constitutional disputes , and cultural divides in Wisconsin society . It began with citizenship , for among its ... issue that anyone in the 1850s could ignore . The slavery question hung on nearly every political election ...
... issue and election . The Compromise of 1850 had temporarily pa- pered over the nation's fissures by opening territory gained from Mexico to the possibility of slave settlement , prohibiting it in the Oregon territory , admitting ...
... issue . His term " popular sovereignty " loosely described the idea that the people who moved to the territories could express their sovereign will about the inclusion or exclusion of slav- ery . Douglas's own motives had little to do ...
... issues of temperance and abolition . When a fugitive slave turned up in the county jail , his principles demanded action . He took an affidavit from Glover , ob- tained a copy of the warrant for his arrest , and left for the residence ...
... issue came to a head in 1853 , when German railroad workers went on strike after being stiffed on wages . They organized and marched around the city , ending at the railroad company's headquar- ters . Despite entreaties by the mayor and ...
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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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