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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... kidnapping and assault and battery . Glover was in the wagon with Garland and Deputy Marshal Charles Cotton , headed due north for Milwaukee . Garland and the arresting party had sent the two wagons on different paths to disguise the ...
... citizens ever assembled in Racine” gathered in the courthouse square. While speakers addressed the crowd, a committee worked up a set of resolutions. The preamble 44 4 10 وو decried the " kidnapping " of Rescuing Joshua Glover 5.
... kidnapping " of Glover , “ a faithful laborer and honest man . ' The first resolution condemned the arrest as " an outrage upon the peace- ful rights of this assembly , " as it was made " without the exhibition of any papers " but by ...
... kidnapped a man in Racine and showed him the cable he had received . Cotton denied kidnapping anyone , although he neglected to mention that he had arrested a fugitive slave.15 Booth , for his part , began to wonder whether the entire ...
... kidnapped ” a man . They had “ pressed ” the county jail and local officers into service , making them hold the slave while “ fetters were being riveted on his limbs . ” Slave catchers planned a se- cret trial to deny Glover the aid of ...
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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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