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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... protected when it fled northward , and many believed that execution of the law was vital to the survival of the Union . News that the first attempt to enforce the act in Wisconsin had prompted several thousand to gather outside the ...
... protect slave property in a free state now looked something like a conspiracy . If free states had to recognize ... protected by the Constitution and enforceable everywhere.10 What would 4 The Rescue of Joshua Glover -
... protected by the Constitution and enforceable everywhere.10 What would prevent slaveholders from claiming the right to bring their slaves permanently into states that prohibited slavery? However farfetched this response, it carried ...
... protection , that this Sacred Writ shall be obeyed . ” The third resolution pledged that the assembly would stand by the prisoner and do its utmost to secure him a trial by jury.61 The chairman put the resolutions to the crowd . Accord ...
... protect the prisoner. The U.S. district attorney for Wisconsin, John Sharpstein, came to Cotton's aid. Until then, the district attorney had not involved himself in what the law defined as the essen- tially private matter of fugitive ...
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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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